CHAPTER XX 

 ON TOP AGAIN 



FROM the Seco we moved north to Palomas Creek, 

 where we made three camps. 



We were nearing the end now of our east work 

 and our efforts to make the best speed possible were 

 increased, if that could be, by the discovery that the 

 supply of chuck on hand was nearly exhausted. It 

 was a week's trip with the burros to Kingston, and 

 as we moved every few days the pack outfit could not 

 be spared long enough to bring out supplies. Un- 

 less, indeed, we halted where we were and mapped 

 in camp till the burros could make the journey. But 

 we had had one experience of this sort in the Animas, 

 and one was enough. We voted to keep on till we 

 could make camp on top, a few thousand feet higher, 

 and do our waiting there. 



In the meantime our slender stores dwindled and 

 'day by day we came to the end of one sort of food 

 after another. Canned fruits and vegetables went 

 first, milk and butter next, finally the last of the 

 sugar and the jams disappeared. We were partic- 

 ularly sorry to see the latter go, as all through the 

 season we had felt a consistent craving for the 

 energy producing sweets and we could find nothing 



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