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would probably be called a glaciated Monom illegible Now it is clear that this fury inland region was icy prior to the lake
period. I have also been so fortunate as to settle that pined? species we discussed found illegible nest young of the Alpine
sparrow. What do you thank of all this? a that a that illegible The sun heat has been intense What a triangle of noses, Capt
R s, Embecks, mine. Mine sore Embecks sour Caps sorest, scaled dry as the backs of lizards, divided into sections all over
the surface burned up on the edges like the surface layers of the desicated sections of adobe flats. On Lone Mountain we were
thirsty How we thought of the Cool singing streams of the S illegible while our blood fevered boiled throbbed. Three of us
ascended the mountain against my counsel re monstrances while forty miles from any known water Two of the three nearly lost
their lives, I suffered least though I suffered as never before, was the only one strong enough to ascend a sandy canon to
find fetch the animals after descending the mtn. Then I had to find my two companions. One I found death like crying in the
hot sand scarily conscious unable to speak above a frightful whisper. I managed however to get him on his horse. The other
I found in a kind of delirious stupor voiceless in the sage brush. it was a fearfully exciting search I forgot my own exhaustion
in it though I never for a moment lost my will wits in margin: or doubted our ability to endure escapse. We reached water
at daybreak of second day - two days nights in this fire without water. A lesson has been learned that will last in margin:
we will not suffer so again. Of course we could not eat or sleep all the time, for we could not swallow food, the illegible
prevented? sleep