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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
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hat a cowboy would spend time andgood cartridges—a hundred miles from a railroad—inshooting such dreadfully cheap game as jack-rabbits. Later on, this absorbing passion for shooting led to adeplorable incident. Westward of Quitovaquita the trail describes a bigloop southward, chiefly for the laudable purpose of keepingas close as possible to the Sonoyta River. It was whilewe were crossing a high and bare bit of land overlookingthe bed of the river, there fully 500 feet wide, that ourMexican wagon scored its first break-down. The ironthimble came bodily out of the wooden hub; and when ithad done so, we saw that the wound was an old one, onlysuperficially healed, and festering underneath with woodenwedges, strips of gunny-sack and goodness knows whatnot. The yawning cavern inside that hub seemed abso-lutely hopeless; but Mr. Sykes went to work with unruffledbrow to doctor it up. Near the beginning of the trouble, a lone man in blackclothes might have been seen, and in fact was seen,
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DOWN THE SONOYTA TO THE LAVA 125 toilsomely wading across the river and the sand from theopposite side. He came from a thick patch of brush, andlaid a course for our spot so straight it was evident thathe wished to board us. At last Mr. Milton exclaimed, Why, its one of those Japs!^^ And this obliges me to turn back the pages of history,for one brief moment. As soon as we reached Sonoyta, we heard, with keeninterest, of five Japanese who had recently appeared in theSonoyta valley, coming from the south, desirous—so theysaid—of reaching the mouth of the Colorado River!They knew no English to speak of, were very ill fitted outfor travel of any kind, and seemed utterly unacquaintedwith the deserts. They proposed to walk along el Caminodel Diablo—the Devils Road—from Sonoyta to the Colo-rado River, without any outfit whatever, without arms,and with only two canteens for five men! Against all advice, the quintet finally started west-ward, in due time passed Quitovaquita and launche

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