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been impossible. However, by striking it now we were 

 to save thirty miles, so we got our coffee as soon as the 

 holiche opened, photographed the Senor Grandiole on duty 

 at the station, also the holiche, picked up a guide who was 

 to start us on the right trail, and started. 



First we trailed a couple of miles back, then dropped 

 down a steep hillside into a new canyon, and after four or 

 five miles came to the postoffice and former site of the town 

 of Colonel Holditch, where we found the Sefiora Grandiole 

 and took a photograph of the office, then of the Sefiora 

 and the ninos. From here we had a trail down one of the 

 best grassed canyons we saw anywhere in the country. 

 For twenty miles we passed bunches of horses and sheep 

 grazing along a series of pools of water on which there were 

 numerous duck. We made our noon stop on this water, 

 but at about three we struck the coast road, so called, 

 and entered an extremely dry and barren country, through 

 which we traveled until nearly dark looking for water. 

 Finally we made a false turn and finding ourselves off the 

 trail gave up and camped for the night without water for 

 either our horses or ourselves. To be sure of finding them 

 in the morning we picketed them during the night. 



In the morning it did not take long to get under way 

 and we were soon on the trail again, which brought us 

 about nine o'clock to a house and watering place, where 

 we all got refreshed and learned about the road ahead. 

 By ten we came to the telegraph line, which we followed 

 for the next four or five days. During the afternoon we 

 went through a narrow pass between two high mesa-like 

 hills, the appearance of which drew me to explore the larger 

 one. It yielded no fossils, however, though there were 

 Indian graves along the edge of the cliff, but they had been 

 opened and not enough of interest left behind to pay for 

 stopping to dig them out further. About three we came 

 to the house of a Basque, where we got water again. He 

 advised us that there was a German estancia only four 



