N65 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
foot, This is the primitive life of the old cave dwellers. There 
are 4 children , one idiot, 2 girls, 1 boy. The mother, about 20 
anid svon ty have another. The dogs look half-starved. All ani- 
wuls are very tame, They have Cashmere goats and a young 
bluck-tail fawn, about a foot high, Itisa cattle ranch on the 
edge vf the brush. The man has several deer hides hanging up 
wid one tanned buckskin. Morning. The folks talked late last 
night and the dogs barked much, apparently at panthers, The 
litile pigs crawled to bed with me, insinuating close to my le 
for warmth. I watched the stars march across the sky. Barom- 
ever reads 4750 now, evidentlly too high last night. People very 
pleasant but dirty and unshod. 
10-30 a.m. Got to Borego ranchand will stay all day. They 
are Cutting up uw beef. Mules’ backs are sore, mine least of all, 
forms a little waterhole and is rapidly drying up. Coming down 
‘A-Ye was a marked change in the flora at 4000 ft. where the oaks 
ud Nolina stopped and and Bursera and Jatropha came in along 
with the eaetus. My new grass and Carex stopped at 6000. Epi- 
cumpes grandis also stopped. Humidity at that ranch at 7 
p.m. 
42% and this a.m. 75¢. § : : ; 
bok ctiieneat #. Season remarkably dry. It is hopelessly 
This seems crue] to me. 
ity now 78 percent. at 7 a.m. People 
ers s- There are 2fully grown girls here, 3 mar- 
ni Babel oo Goats, kids, lambs, calves, chickens 
all together under foot. irtyi 
swept clean by splint hinkola ee 
ept. 26, morning. Hada good braakfast of tortillas, meat. 
m. and went to Cotaranch and on to 
_the trip was just tiredness, nothing more. eer 
I paid and was glad'to get 0 
atthat. I goa! myself fortunate in getting so pad a moso as 
el pop refused to go had he known 
is @man of fifty, gray,quiet spoken, all busi- 
tiie os swears nor smokes, #ive Gaakities: in - Mexican, is a 
crack packer and knows all about: cinching up stock to keep packs 
ally i a fe Presa though he cannot read, wears sandals, over- 
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