[Gutenberg 46276] • The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California

[...] Benito had taken the other's zarape which he spread over the girl. That blanket was their only appendage; beside the scanty covering which the three wore, weapons, water bottle and food container, they had none. A critical position this for the small party, weaponless and foodless in the waste! A disarmed man is reckoned as dead in such a wild! Struggling is impossible against the incalculable foes that either crush a solitary adventurer by their mass, [...]."