CHAPTER III.
Camping at Upper Bavispe River--Low Stone Cabins, Fortresses, and Other Remains Indicating Former Habitation--The Animals Starve on the Winter Grass of the Sierra and Begin to Give Out--A Deserted Apache Camp--comfort at Last--The Giant Woodpecker--We Arrive at the Mormon Settlements of Pacheco and Cave Valley.
At Bavispe River we had to remain for some little time to allow the animals to recuperate, and to get them, as far as possible, in condition for the hard work still ahead.

I also had to send back to Nacori for fresh provisions.

Of course, not much was to be gotten there, but we got what there was in the line of food stuffs, panoche (brown sugar) and corn.

My messengers had orders to bring the latter in the form of pinole, that is, toasted corn ground by hand into a fine meal.

This is the most common, as well as the most handy, ration throughout Mexico.