The rain changed to snow which fell so heavily that we were driven to the cabin where a glorious fire was made on the hearth, and by it Andy got the bread and bacon and coffee ready for breakfast, and also for dinner, for the snow was so thick we could not venture on the river till it stopped, and that was not till afternoon.
The country through which we now passed was more broken.

Cliffs, buttes, mesas, were everywhere.

Sometimes we were between high rocky banks, then we saw a valley several miles wide, always without a sign of occupation by white men, even though as yet we were not far from the railway in a direct course.

Very late in the afternoon we saw something moving in the distance on the right.

Our glasses made it out to be two or three men on horseback.