Now it was going to be a fight.
Through the day he had mechanically studied the geologic formation of those hills before him, and he had decided that the chance for water there was too slight to make a search worth while.

He would push on toward the Tippipahs.

_Pah_, he knew, meant water in the Indian tongue.

He did not know what _Tippi_ signified, but since Indians lived in the Tippipah range he was assured that the water was drinkable.

So he got stiffly to his feet, studied again the darkling skyline, sent a glance up at the first stars, and turned his face and William's resolutely toward the Tippipahs.
He had applied first aid to William's knee in the form of chewed tobacco, which if it did no more at least discouraged the pestering flies.