Very hot weather.

Lanced Monte's back & dressed it with creoline.

Turned them loose & away they put again.
Soon after this they arrived at the place where Thompson had located his claim.

It was desert, of course, sloping away on one side to a dreary waste of sand and weeds with now and then a giant cactus standing gloomily alone with malformed lingers stretched stiffly to the staring blue sky.

Behind where they pitched their final camp--Camp 48, Cash Markham recorded it in his diary--the hills rose.