“Give me time, sir. Well, then, the only parts we’ve got to search are those where the country’s quite wild, and no one been there but Indians.”
“Exactly,” said the doctor.
“Then the parts we have got to search are not half so big already, being only the bad desert lands.”
“Good,” cried Wilton.
“Here’s where the map comes in now, gentlemen,” continued Griggs. “What does it say on it—what does it show?”
“Very little,” replied Bourne.
“That’s true, sir. I could make a better map myself; but it does show one thing, and that is that the gold city lies amongst the mountains.”
“Yes, quite true,” said the doctor.
“Then here you are, sir: if the gold city lies amongst the mountains it can’t be any good for us to go hunting for it among the plains.”
“Of course not.”