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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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t, at tea-time, Mr. Sykes was totally missing.No one had seen him since morning, when he was observedrunning loose on the lava field toward the west, dragginghis lariat. When late bedtime (eight oclock) came with-out bringing him, some Wise One exclaimed, *ril bet anything hes gone to the Gulf! And sure enough, he had! About one oclock that after-noon, while wandering over the lava, mapping and measur-ing peaks, he said to himself, in genuine English style, Its a fine day; Ill go to the Gulf this afternoon! Without further parley, or a word to any one, off hestarted. He tramped that whole round trip, eight milesof it on lava and ten miles in loose sand, in about thirteenhours. Itwas about half-past one in the morning whenhe jauntily tramped up to camp, helped himself to somefragments of cooked food that the rest of us had carelesslyoverlooked, and slipped into his sleeping-bag. The next morning he rose with the rest of us, as livelyand debonair as any of us, and quite as ready for the
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A JOURNEY OVER THE LAVA 239 doings of the day. This is what he told us about his tripand its results: W^hen I left camp yesterday morning, I went overto the big lava butte to the west, climbed it and took a lotof sights, and then, as it was still early, I thought I wouldgo down to sea level with my aneroid, so as to get a checkon my readings on Pinacate. From the top of my butteI picked out what looked to be a fairly easy route acrossthe sand-hills, set my pedometer and started. My selectedroute first led me diagonally across the playas toward thesand, then more or less of a zigzag course through thesand-hills, and after that straight for the shore of the Gulf.I estimated my distance from the shore-line to be fromfifteen to twenty miles, and this proved to be fairly correct;for from the time of leaving the top of the butte until I gotback into camp, my pedometer tallied forty-three miles. *The sand-hills averaged about five miles across, andin them the walking is very bad. The Gulf fr

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