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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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f^ Milton andCharlie Foster, the work was soon accomplished, and thelong line of horses began to wind its sinuous way over thelava field. It gave us queer sensations—to strike ofi^ straighttoward the centre of that great black expanse, the craterand the awful Sand-Hills behind us, dead volcano conesand peaks on both sides of us and all kinds of lava under-foot. Ahead of us was roughness, ruggedness, low lavacones and high ones—brown, red and innumerable,finally culminating in Pinacate itself. All we knew of thecountry ahead of us was that it was all lava, mostly veryrough, and Pinacate was *as far away as ever! The trail of three and one-half miles over to the tanksproved to be not so very bad. There were stretches offairly level plain whereon the footing was smooth enoughto be really good, and the lava sprinkled over the surfacewas in such small bits that no one minded it. Without knowing it on that first day, we passed quitenear another big crater, and also two massive dead vol-
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PAPAGO TANKS AND THE LAVA FIELDS 177 cano cones; but there were no terrible tracts of pressure-ridge lava such as we found in scores of places fartheralong. Our route to the tanks was garnished with ocatil-las, bisnaga cacti, the inevitable choya of Bigelow, and anoccasional Encelia and dragons blood; of which, moreanon. The impression made by the sight of a new thing inNature is wholly dependent upon the observers frame ofmind. It is always a great pity for a traveller to see anynew thing of paramount interest when he is too hot, toocold, too wet or too dry to enjoy it. The human mind islike a photographers negative. If the emulsion is nottoo old and stale, if there is not too much halation, toomuch smoke of cigarettes or mental fog, the image willbe sharp and clear, and appreciated. I think that of our party, every man, horse and dogfully appreciated and admired the Papago Tanks. HowI wish I could interview Maude and Bill to-day—the leading mules of our stock company—and have th

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