Mr.Culverwell and Mr.Fish stayed with us, making another wagon in our train.

We talked about the matter carefully, I did not think it possible to get across that plain in less than four or six days, and I did not believe there was a drop of water on the route.

To the south of us was a mountain that now had considerable snow upon its summit, and some small pine trees also.

Doubtless we could find plenty of water at the base, but being due south, it was quite off our course.

The prospects for reaching water were so much better in that way that we finally decided to go there rather than follow the Jayhawkers on their desolate tramp over the dry plain.
So we turned up a canon leading toward the mountain and had a pretty heavy up grade and a rough bed for a road.