California Desert TrailsHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 387 էջ |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
adobe agave arrowweed Blooms in late Blooms in mid-spring blossoms blue Borego Springs bush cactus Cahuilla California camp canteen charm cholla cliff clusters color Colorado Colorado Desert Corn Springs Cottonwood Coyote Coyote Mountain Creek creosote creosote bush dark feet high Fish Creek Mountain flowers grass gray green ground gullies half heat horses hour Imperial Valley Indian Kaweah late spring leaves look marked mesquit Mexican miles morning mountains night ocotillo pale Palm Cañon Palm Springs palo verde passed plant prospector purple ranch river road rock rose saguaro Salton Sea San Felipe San Gorgonio San Gorgonio Pass San Jacinto San Jacinto Mountain sand Santa Rosa Mountain seemed Seven Palms shade shape showed sight Span spot stems summer sunset tion took track trail tree turned walls Warner's Wellson willow wind yellow Yuma
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 191 - But see! The Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending: Heaven's youngest-teemed...
Էջ 362 - Keep your direction true by traveling toward or from some selected landmark, or by the sun during the day or a star at night, or by keeping with or against or in some fixed direction in relation to the wind. If you think these things out and have studied the country beforehand, so that you know the relation of a road, or a ranch, or a spring, or a river to a given landmark or to the points of the compass, you should have no difficulty in finding your way again. With some persons, however, the faculty...
Էջ 362 - ... be known when they are reached again. Before he begins a journey that does not follow a beaten and unmistakable track, the traveler should determine his general direction by compass or map or inquiry and should adhere to that direction. The inexperienced traveler often gets at once into a panic on losing his way, and wastes his remaining energy in frantic rushes in one direction and another. This tendency to become panic-stricken should be controlled, if possible. Sit down, get out your map and...
Էջ 358 - ... four horses, drawing a wagon that carries four persons and their bedding, provisions, and tools, another team of four horses must also be taken to haul sufficient hay and grain to feed the eight horses for two weeks. There are but few places in the desert, away from the railroads, where grain or hay of any kind can be procured. As the teams are rarely able to travel faster than a walk, heavy horses that are good walkers should be selected. The tires should be as wide as can be procured. Desirable...
Էջ 275 - In that terrific temperature one's bodily moisture must be constantly renewed, for moisture is as vital as air. One feels as if one were in the focus of a burning-glass. The throat parches and seems to be closing. The eye-balls burn as though facing a scorching fire. The tongue and lips grow thick, crack, and blacken.
Էջ 362 - ... shade of a bush or rock, and wait till night. Thirst will be less intolerable then and endurance greater. If you have camp companions who are likely to look for you, start a signal fire by night or a smoke by day from some little eminence, and then stay by it until help comes. If you must depend on your own exertions, think carefully over all the possibilities and adopt a plan of action and adhere to it. Remember the proneness of the lost person to exaggerate the distance he has traveled. It...
Էջ 362 - ... by it until help comes. If you must depend on your own exertions, think carefully over all the possibilities and adopt a plan of action and adhere to it. Remember the proneness of the lost person to exaggerate the distance he has traveled. It is well to count paces and to remember that about 2,000 make a mile. You will thus have a good check on the distance that you go, and at the same time will keep your mind occupied. • "Keep your direction true by traveling toward or from some selected landmark,...
Էջ 361 - If he can not find an experienced companion, lit1 should proceed with the greatest caution, gathering all possible information about his route in advance, keeping himself abundantly supplied with water and food, and never leaving one water station without a definite idea as to the location of the next. A traveler can rarely see exactly where water is to be found, except by going over the camp ground and looking carefully for wells. Many of the wells are mere shafts, -20 to 40 feet deep, rectangular...
Էջ 357 - Where teams are used animals accustomed to the desert should be procured if possible, for horses or mules that -are unused to desert conditions fret on the sandy roads and rapidly weaken from drinking the saline waters. They are also in danger of pneumonia from the cold of the winter nights and the wide extremes of temperature. During winter journeys blankets" should be provided to protect the animals at night. Travel in the desert far from the railroads and from food supplies is of course more expensive...
Էջ 289 - ... from a quartette of tenth-rate musicians at the rear; three painted girls, or rather children, in dirty pink, who now and then ceased their crude blandishments of the men near them to shout the words of a ribald song (this was the vaudeville entertainment to which I had been bidden by Pimpleface) ; and a babel of shouts and cheerless, discordant laughter from a hundred or so loafers, what — that, six or eight times repeated, is Mexicali.