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ter leaving Fort Mason, "we have got to consider which course w

und his neck. It was the first time that the boys had seen it. As Dave opened it they examined it with much curiosity. It was div

fusing," Dick said

by the map it lies on the north side of the Gila. But as the Gila is eight or nine hundred miles long, that don't help us a great deal, and the map wouldn't be any good to us if it was not for this mark here up near the top. You see all these things are meant for mountains, but as one mountain on a map is just like another, we should be downright done if it was not for this mark. Do you see there are three little jags here close together? Now I t

ve hundred miles from end to end, it may mean fifty. If it is five hundred it must be seven

so," Da

far it is from the th

t is about fifty mil

peaks are about a quarter of the distance from the right-hand side, this map begins about a hundred and fifty miles to the west of the peaks. I s

y might mean trees or rocks. Then look here; there are two more dots out here, and if you were to draw a line straight through them, it would come to the other dots. O

the Gila valley and mounting this side stream till we come upon something that agrees with these

cale. Here the peaks are made twice as far from the left side as they are from the river, but they may be really four times as far, or they may be only the same distance; there is no saying at all; as he has drawn it, the point where the road begins is a good deal more to the south than the peaks are. If the scale i

"Here is another thing beside them; w

meant. What in the world can he have put a bird there for? Let us look at the other villages." He examined them ca

he chiefs. I know the names of a good many of their chiefs

Crow, too, Dave,"

tances pretty considerable, for I should say that from them to the three peaks it must be nigh three hundred miles. I don't think it is more than a hundred from here to the Crow's village. It should be an easy thing following that marked line, but it won't matter if we miss it. Our course will be pretty nigh due east, not, as he makes it, north, for we know the Sisters are not more than eighty miles from the Gila. When we get near them we can't help seeing them. Then we have only got to follow the direction of this map below. There are the peaks. Well,

o come back this

tains about a hundred and fifty miles north of the Sisters, but I reckon it would be a terrible journey to undertake with loaded