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Title: Campfires on desert and lava
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
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r to the GreatInterests that I have the Honor to represent on thisOccasion—the first fresh meat in camp. But what of the Geographer ? Mr. Sykes was not in;and he was wanted, very much. Judging his bump oflocality by my own, I rashly predicted that he wouldnot find Sonoyta that night. Dr. MacDougal alonethought differently; and, sure enough, about nine oclock,which was three hours after darkness set in, in came theGeographer, waterlogged but serene. He had climbedto the top of Cubabis highest peak, found it to be 4,300feet high, and his only complaint against the weather wasbecause the rain-clouds had enveloped him so completelywhile on the summit that he could record no observationson his plane-table. To be rain-soaked on our first day in el desierto ofSonora, and thoroughly chilled, also, was like beingprostrated by heat in Greenland; and wondering what nextwould happen to us unexpectedly, we thankfully devoureda shameless meal, and crept into the snug comforts of oursleeping-bags.
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CHAPTER X DOWN THE SONOYTA TO THE LAVA The Start Westward—Bad Mules—The Devils Road—A RuinedHacienda—A Lonesome Little Cemetery—We Meet Mr. Daniels—The Sonoyta River in Flood—^The Water-Storage Cactus—A Rattle-snake in Camp—^Quitovaquita, on the Boundary—Rube DanielsPassion for Pow^der—An Accident—A Japanese Incident—Pinacatefrom Afar—Another Rattlesnake in Camp. At least one of us had expected that westward of theblessed little Sonoyta Oasis we would find the river valleyquite narrow, and lying between two ranges of steepmountains. But once more our expectations requiredrevision. The Sonoyta Valley is several miles wide, andits general surface is not nearly so level as the floor-likevalleys west of Tucson. On the south, the nearest moun-tains—after the Cubabi Range—are a goodish bit away,but on the north the Quitovaquita and other mountainsare really quite near. Pinacate Peak, our goal, is notvisible from the lower levels of Sonoyta, being hulldown on

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