So strong is the instinct and love of home in some people, that the little tendrils shoot out in a day and weave themselves around a spot which has given them shelter.

Such as those are not born to be nomads.
Camps were made at Stanwix, Oatman's Flat, and Gila Bend.

There we left the river, which makes a mighty loop at this point, and struck across the plains to Maricopa Wells.

The last day's march took us across the Gila River, over the Maricopa desert, and brought us to the Salt River.
We forded it at sundown, rested our animals a half hour or so, and drove through the MacDowell canon in the dark of the evening, nine miles more to the post.

A day's march of forty-five miles.