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Chico, Nov 29, 1877 Dear Mr Muir Your P. card dated Sequoia Woods on Kings River, Oct 21st , has just come by tonight
s mail Must have gone via Shasta Lassen to Mt Hood and back, or some other longer way round By this time you must of course
have returned to civilization. To write you fully, I have not time to do justice to your in imitable letter from Sacramento
(about a week after your departure) would be impossible What did finally become of Snag Jumper ? I never did before allow
any man to leave Chico with quite so bad an out- fit Supposing that you had directed my naval constructor just how to do,
I gave the matter no thought whatever, and never saw the nondescript till