If a convenient spot can be found we halt for breakfast about nine a.m.

To save time, this meal is generally cooked the night before, and has only to be warmed.

We continue the march after breakfast, rest a little in the middle of the day, and break off early in the afternoon.

We average from two to two-and-a-half miles an hour in a straight line, or as the crow flies, and seldom have more than five or six hours a day of actual travel.

This in a hot climate is as much as a man can accomplish without being oppressed; and we always tried to make our progress more a pleasure than a toil.