The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-08

said that you were liable to find bighorn in any
of the mountains over TO the west Bat when
we had travelled Atty miles down toward the coast
the Papagos told that the place where the bighorn
really lived and held massmectings was a desolate
range of mountains right down on the edge OF tho
Gulf of California The Papagos said they never
hunted over in those hills themselves because
the Scri Indians came in there off and on 10 hunt
and Serbs were several degrees worse than largo
black devils; that they ate coniding strangers
knew nothing Of guns. used poisoned arrows and
could run down a deer on foot II We went over
into the Big Seri Mountains, we would find big
horn without hunting for theiu but the Serbs
would kill ua However. that our business
II we wanted to be killed
We elected to be killed and cut of across forty
miles Of desert cactus jungle. scrub and mes.
quite, and stretches Of open playa where the sand
was hard and bare as asphalt and old. forgotten
river deltas where the sand wasli like powdery gray
volcanic ash, and the squirrel burrows let the
horses in To their knees every six steps. Talk
about dead and forgotten terrtoryl that gulf
coast desert takes the unleavened biscuit Even
the coyotes keep out OF there, and the only living
things we saw the way across were tarautulas
and ella monsters that would stalk right up under
your feet like they expected you TO turn ont and
give them the road
I'VE finally hit big barranca full Of water at
the foot of the coast range Of hills and the next
day went over TO climb a big Ave thousand
foot peak that rose right up out Of the gulf as
to get i, look At the country before bes-inning TO
hunt likewise thinking there might be metal
in bi,- mink and yellow ou,crop that showed near
the ton Of the peak We had btibed a couple OF
Papnros TO come along with us and they steered
lis I'm to an intermittent spripr Al the foot of the
peak where they said there water. sometimes.
There wasn't any water hut Just ~ we got to
where the spring ought TO he one Of the Indians
iabbercd TO the other and held up three fingers
| looked ahead and there was n band of three
bipborn too far av,v for , shot lust disappearing
over A saddle between the peaks wanted To
work around about two miles and catch them ON
tho otber side but the Indian said in Spanisb
that il was too much work TO lust keep on where we
were going and we'd see some more right AWAY
r,,,,y ouicr 6yured he Was Twins, In Get ont
of The walk hut we followed his advice We
climbed prcttv much all the rest of the forenoon
t We were within about 800 feet of the ton of the
na.L ,xb.p IN. panayos ceme tn n noint spsin
and dropped behind a rock There at a forty five
dsgree snyIs above ms and about three hundred
yards ,v.v there WAS n bunch Of four sheen lined
IN against a straight wall Of rock dun colored
n,fo ,st .h,ut the same color they were The
only thing that located them for me was the head
and shoulders Of the old leader sticking out be
,,ond Tho ro,ns, of ths cliff and shaving b,scL
i,r, ,b b,rs sLv Tho Indiana ver. for
dreaming II, ill vou could knock the whole lot
over with a roc, hut I'd worked too often n whole
dav for shot At 800 wards TO take anv chances in
,c,tiny closer Sol took a rest and drew COARSE
on the le,der,s head allowing for the refraction
~, ,bo ,ocLs He inst wont nm in the air lilo be
had dvn,mit. under him a nd am. down all spread
out On III. slid. rock and toboreancd down 10
within . brndrsd vards NJ us Lille a wildcat t,,in
~, . Grad.
"Dn Won know the rest Of those fool sheen didn't
tumble tn what had bappencd till had taken a
sn.n shot At the next in III, line knew had
touched bir, from the vav he stumbled but thew
all went I'm the rock like cats II was lust pure
waste Of powder TO shoot again. but | couldn't
b.ln nu,nninp one more shot AT them lust IA thew
wore getting ont Of sight behind the shoulder OF
tho mountain Scratch me II the smallest one
Of the bunch didn't curl up in the midst of Jump
and come down fat II wasn't shooting. IL was