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Below, stretching in endless miles was the desert a sinister, forbidding land of desolate distances, marked only by slender yucca palms, mesquite, dusty greasewood, an occasional clump of green palo verde, the slim fingers of the ocatilla, the high "forks" of the giant sahuara, and clumps of la cholla cactus, looking like apple orchards in full bloom.
If they only had a change of scenery, I wouldn't be so bored. And those tall, smokestack cactus make me sick." "Smokestack cactus!" snapped Kit with contempt. "If you'd only take enough interest to learn the names of the trees and things you see, you wouldn't be so bored." "Well, what are they called?" "Sahuara. And if that word is too big for you to remember, call them Giant Cactus."
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