A man's at odds to know his mind, because his mind is aught he has to know it with.

He can know his heart, but he don't want to.

Rightly so.

Best not look in there.

It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it.

You can find meanness in the least of creatures.

But when God made man, the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything,

make a machine, and a machine to make the machine, and evil that can run itself a thousand years.

No need to tend it. The girl was on death's store when the lieutenant found her, half starved and suffering from exposure under the searing desert heat.

Nevertheless, Whipple was able to nurse the young lady back to health, sharing from his canteen at first, and when she was able, his ration

of food. Then before sending the girl back to her people, the Quitson, Lieutenant Whipple gifted

her a small mirror, just a token of friendship. Following this good deed, he and his party a topographical

engineers simply went about their business, surveying the Gila River boundary of

present-day Southern Arizona. Now, believe it or not, surveyors like Lieutenant Whipple, had one of the

most dangerous jobs on the frontier, especially back in them early days. Not only were they

traveling through mostly uncharted territory, and at the mercy of all the Mother Nature

could throw at them, but the land they were surveying was also occupied by indigenous tribes

who may or may not appreciate their presence. Hell back in Texas, where Whipple had also

plied his trade, the Comanchee declared an open season on surveyors, dispatched any and all

they could find on site. That said,

it was a lucrative career, albeit for those with a high tolerance for adventure. George

Washington did it, as did Daniel Boone, and even celebrated Texas Ranger, John Coffey Hayes.

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