A little further northward we came down another 1,000 feet, and thus we gradually reached Bavispe, which is here a rapid, roaring stream, girth-deep, and in many places deeper.

It here flows northward, describing the easterly portion of the curve it forms around the Sierra de Nacori.
I selected as a camping ground a small mesa on the left bank of the river, among pines and oaks and high grass, about forty feet above the water edge.

A meadow set park-like with pines extended from here nearly three-quarters of a mile along the river, and was almost half a mile wide.

Near our camp we found several old and rusty empty tin cans, such as are used for putting up preserved food.

One of them was marked "Fort Bowie." Doubtless this spot had been used before as a camping ground, probably by some of General Crook's scouts..