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Naming Echo Peaks 
the report, a deafening shock like a thousand thunder-claps in 
one; then dead silence. Next, from far away there was a rattle 
as of musketry, and peal after peal of the echoing shot came 
back to us. The interval of silence was timed on another trial 
and was found to be exactly twenty seconds. The result was 
always the same, and from this unusual echo we named the 
place Echo Peaks. 
I had made Jones a pair of crutches, by means of which he 
was able to hobble painfully around, and by the time the pack- 
train was ready to start for the settlement, about one hundred 
miles away, he could bear being lifted upon a horse. Steward, 
also, was able to ride, and with a number of us walking we left 
the Paria behind. 
November’s sharp days were upon us. We had only the 
remains of our summer clothing and few blankets, so that when 
the thermometer registered ii° F. above zero we did not dis¬ 
pute it. 
