"Add to them wood and water and what little more a man needs he should be able to find." "It's wood and water that we ought to hunt now." "We may strike both before night, but if not we'll ride on a while anyhow, and maybe we'll find 'em." They went deeper into the great upland which was half a desert and half a plain.

Occasionally they saw besides the cactus, mesquite and yucca and some clumps of coarse grass.
"Bunch grass," said Obed, "like that which you find further north, and mighty good it is, too, for cattle and horses.

We'll have plenty of food for these two noble steeds of ours, and I shouldn't be surprised, too, if we ran across big game.

It's always where the bunch grass grows." They did not reach wood and water by nightfall, but, riding two hours longer in a clear twilight, they found both.

The plain rose and fell in deep swells, and in the deepest of the swells to which they had yet to come they found a trickling stream of clear water, free from alkali, fringed on either shore with trees of moderate size.
"Here we are," said Obed, "and here we stay till morning.