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papers, went on. The only duties we paid 

 were those levied on our provisions. The 

 team and wagon were entered free under a 

 prospector's license for thirty days, and an 

 obliging stableman signed the necessary bond. 

 The main difficulty in traveling in Lower 

 California lies in the fact that you can get 

 no feed for your animals. From Tia Juana 

 east to Tecate, where you find half a dozen 

 hovels, there is hardly a house and not a 

 spear of grass for thirty miles. At Tecate 

 there is a little nibbling. Thence south for 

 twenty-five miles we went to the Agua Hechi- 

 cera, or witching water; thence east twenty- 

 five miles more to Juarez, always without 

 grass ; thence south to the ranch house of the 

 Hansen ranch, at El Rayo, twenty-five miles 

 more. There, at last, was a little grass, but 

 after passing that point we camped at Agua 

 Blanca, and were again without grass for 

 thirty miles to the Trinidad Valley, which 

 once had a little grass, now eaten clean. 

 Fortunately we were able to buy hay at 

 Tia Juana, and took some grain. Fortu- 

 nately, also, we found some corn for sale at 

 Juarez. So, with constant graining, a little 

 hay and a supply of grass, either absent or 



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