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coast all the time, but cannot see the water, Much fan-leaved 
Lysiloma 30 ft. high,Spersimmon; cactus scarce. Kil. 829, most- 
ly Legumose shrubs coming into leaf. The Manzanillo Mimosa 
now. Hot, heavy rain here, Franseria ambrosioides, some under- 
shrubs coming in, pumpkin vines aleng small river. Kil. 837, 
Culiacan, Guamochil, a small town. Had much rain here, just 
saw a grove of Sonora palms: very cloudy and still,mostly legu- 
minous bushes and few cactus such as Cereus Thurberi. Every- 
thing wet. There is a low, 4 ft. high, Jatropha common, like 
canescens, The settlements all have palm-leaf roofs, low mits. 
far to the east. Crops all harvested and they are plowing for new 
crop. Vegetation 10 ft, high, and much the same as at the north 
Big-leaved Cassia?. More stock at Culiacan, everything wet and 
muddy, clouds going slowly, vegetation very green; people all ap- 
pear happy: many scrub goats and sheep with tails not bobbed. 
2.30 p, m., ours is a train of 12 cars, all passenger and Express. 
4.20 p. m., raining again, much Crotalaria and Antigonum, coun- 
try soggy, much Lysiloma, some Cereus Thurberi and Pringlei, a 
few big leguminous trees 40-50 ft. high, country normally wet, 
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muddy water. Mazatlan, cool here Got here at 7.30 and went 
to hotel Del Mar by the sea. Mud everywhere,very cloudy ont- 
side. 
Noy. 10, 9.30 a. m, Slept well, weather muggy _and raining at 
sea and sprinkling here,road bad with mud and it looks squaily 
to the n. w. 
Nov. ll, soggy, wet and rainy and very cloudy. Ail my baggage 
came yesterday. Got everything ready for the trip to Guadalajara 
and stored 8 bundles and valise here. : 
Nov. 12, 3000 ft. alt., grass knee-high, Epicampes grandis, 
Andropogon and Aristida, big Tuna and Cereus Pringlei, now we 
many large shrubs with white and funnel-shaped flowers, mbax 
or hice. much grass everywhere, Dalea little feathery 
flowers and tall plants 2-3 ft, high, much red or orange Dysodia 
370.0 ft. alt., Bambos vulgaris. water very dirty now, we are near 
