On the Trail of Geronimo — page 236: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

224 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. Iceland, that the geographies in their schools say that they have the most favored climate of any country on the globe. So Caleb Harland holds a good opinion of Arizona, mainly because he has become the owner of a large drove of cattle and is making money.” The way became so sandy that despite the haste the company were in, they brought their animals down to a walk, and by and by reached the top of a slightly rising ground, from which they took a careful survey of the surrounding country. Sand, sage brush and desolation in every direc- tion. Wherever the eye was turned, it noted the quivering pulsations of the air above the ground which told of the fervid heat that had returned to plague the settler and soldier. And yet the landscape was not lacking in a certain variety and picturesqueness. There were depressions and risings in the plain, clumps of bushes and vegetation, piles of bowlders, and here and there the tiresome grayish yellow which told of the long continued and withering heat, was relieved by a streak of green, so bright and refresh- ing that it was evident the vegetation was moist- ened by some spring or stream. COnmicloOokxSa: