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Nothing signified their wet clothes to them; and without halting they rode straight forward to the ceja of the Llano Estacado, and having reached it turned to the right, and rode along the base of the bluffs.
At this pace they all go, only at intervals drawing in to a walk, to breathe their blown steeds for a fresh spurt. Even after night has descended they continue on, a clear moonlight enabling them to lift the trail. As next morning's sun breaks over the Llano Estacado they descend its western slope into the valley of the Rio Pecos.
Holding our course contrary to the needle, we crossed the Double Mountain Fork, and after a week out from the ranch the brakes which form the border between the lowlands and the Llano Estacado were sighted. Within view of the foothills which form the approach of the famous plain, the Salt and Double Mountain forks of the Brazos are not over twelve miles apart.
The little troop, having safely forded the Pecos, headed towards the "ceja" of the Llano Estacado, that was not far distant from the crossing of Bosque Redondo. A sloping ravine brought them to the top of the "mesa," where a firm level road lay before them a smooth plain without break or bush to guide them on their course. But the cibolero needed no guide.
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