Farther on Venters came into a region where deep indentations marked the line of canyon walls.

These were huge, cove-like blind pockets extending back to a sharp corner with a dense growth of underbrush and trees.
Venters penetrated into one of these offshoots, and, as he had hoped, he found abundant grass.

He had to bend the oak saplings to get his horse through.

Deciding to make this a hiding-place if he could find water, he worked back to the limit of the shelving walls.

In a little cluster of silver spruces he found a spring.