I08 THE ADVENTURES OF 



announced themselves ready to start, doubt- 

 less under the impression that would not get 

 thirsty any more that day. But in this way 

 they were sadly mistaken, lor, as it was a 

 very hot day, and we were compelled to travel 

 in the broiling sun, about eleven o'clock they 

 began to want a drink, and would drive out 

 of the way to examine old dry lakes in the 

 hope of finding water. I told them that they 

 were only losing time and that the nearest 

 water was the lake I had spoken of, and that 

 we would get water sooner by driving directly 

 there, instead of wasting time in exploring 

 dry lake beds. They finally got angry and 

 told me that I did not know what I was doino- 

 and that they knew more about the country 

 than I did, and that there was no water within 

 forty miles of us. They got so incorrigible 

 that I told them that they might go to a 

 warmer country for all I cared and rode off 

 and left them. When I had gotten off a short 

 distance, I looked back to see if they were 

 following, but I saw that they had turned to 

 go back to Lakin. It was only about twenty 



