CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. I09 



miles in a direct line and about thirty-tive the 

 way we had come, but to go directly there 

 one must pass through a range of sand hills, 

 which it is almost impossible to cross. They 

 were in a hurry to get back, and thinking that 

 they knew all about the country, took the 

 direct line and ran straight into the sand hills, 

 and, after traveling all that night and the next 

 day, came out of the sand hills about thirty 

 miles from the place they intended to strike. 

 Here, however, they found water, but their 

 mules had given out before they got through 

 the hills, and they had left the wagon and 

 walked the rest of the way, leading their 

 mules, and when they had rested they gave a 

 pilot five dollars a day to go back with them 

 after the wagon, and all from thinking that 

 they knew more than their guide. 



