CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.
THE PRONG-HORNS.
The "butte" was one of those singular formations to be met with in the Great American Desert.

It was not a mountain nor yet a hill.

Its shape was different from either.

It was more like a vast mass of rocky earth, raised above the prairie, perpendicular on all sides, and having a flat level surface upon its top.

It was, in fact, one of those hills which in the language of Spanish America, are termed "mesas," or tables--so called on account of their flat, table-like tops.