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wide, The flowers are like those of C. Pringlei but narrower and 
a little shorter, apparently very dark, Morning. Humidity 80¢ 
Barometer unchanged. There i i 
tree here with a spray-like flat top and there are some big a 
dark-green trees with wide pods 6 inches long (Albizzia). Teco- 
ma stans is common and in flower and fruit. ost of the brush 
here has very light-colored and smooth bark blotched and darker- 
brownish below, very few with rough bark, n big trees, 
The big cardon and Thurbari still occur but scarcer, probably al- 
so the petaiya. The big candelabrum shrub with large white 
flowers (Thevetia) came in at the Cota ranch and is still here. 
They have Cotswold sheep and Angora goats here, and 20 long- 
horn cows with small bags and 18 calves. The sh 
tailed. The pigs are red. The white-banded pigeon is here, al- 
so the gray-breasted jay with long tail, and blue all over except 
the breast. There are few birds. 
Next morning, the 2lst., we followed up the Jry riverbed, 6 miles 
to the Pelota ranch, a near cvunterpart of the cliff-dwellers 
homes, Here we engaged two young men to go along as guides 
and to cut out the brush on the trail. We stopped for the noon 
rest under the first liveoak, at 3800 ft. alt., the beginning of the 
Lower Temperate lifezone, and at the first water on the trail, 
They unsaddled and went down in the steep gulch for water. Hu- 
midity 38%. Ocean breeze. Here a few new herbs came in. 
The granite trail was steep and as difficult as | ever was on any- 
where, being only a deer trail, but at 4.30 we reached the Laguna 
all tired out so that we could hardly crawl along, after passing 
the beautiful "Chica Laguna’, a mile back. As we neared the top 
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grazing the rich grass. I wanted to camp at "Chica Laguna” 
because of che condition 
was an ideal place to ca 
from the gently rising ground, no 
We were soon eating our supper. but 
ize that night however tempting mig 
Sphacele, acres of them all around. 
