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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