They were making up a party to reach the settlements at the Williams ranch, and I made arrangements for them to send back provisions for us.

About thirty started that way--young men and men with no families with them.
I got along very well with my new team after that.

It was about forty miles from water to water, and I think we camped three times.

At one place we found that provisions had been left, with a notice that the material was for us, but the red-skins got the provisions.

We struck a spring called-----, a small spring of water, and a child of some of the party died there and was buried.
We then went more nearly south to find the Mojave River, for we hoped to find water there.