It was a splendid country into which he had come, and yet he found no sign of human life.

The foothills changed to mountains, and he believed he was in the Campbell Range.

Also he knew that he had followed the logical trail from the sulphur country.

Yet it was the eighth day before he came upon a sign which told him that another living being had at some time passed that way.

What he found were the charred remnants of an old camp-fire.