Blood Meridian

Chapter XIX

Glanton, the Judge, and two other gang members sit drinking tea with Doctor Lincoln, who runs the ferry on the Colorado River. Glanton warns the doctor that the Yuma Indians cannot be trusted. The Judge persuades the doctor to take precautions against an attack: to this end, Lincoln grants the gang permission to fortify the hill near the ferry, as well as to prepare the howitzer cannon he owns to be fired.