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INDEX 



Ironwood, Olneya tesota, 47, 165, 



342. 

 Ironwood Mountains, 48, 340, 



342. 

 Isocoma acradenia, 75. 



Jack-rabbit, 78, 246. 



Johnson, Mr. Fred, 122. 



Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, 49, 



140, 145. 

 Juniper, 140. 



Kangaroo-mice, 22. 

 Kaweah, horse, 20 et seq. 

 Kearny, Gen'l., 240, 249. 

 King, Clarence, 85. 

 Kino, Padre Eusebio, 322. 



Laguna Dam, 310. 



Laguna Mountains, 239, 246, 247. 



Lake Cahuilla, 178. 



La Paz, town, 333. 



Larrea glandulosa, see Creosote- 

 bush. 



Light, intensity of, 106, 132, 159, 

 167, 266. 



Lizard, 39, 89, 160, 210, 317. 



Lluvia de Oro, 44. 



Lobelia splendens, 228. 



Los Coyotes, 223. 



Lost Horse Mine, 145. 



Lynx, 22. 



Lyon's Weil, 154. 



Magnesia Spring Canon, 27. 

 Malpais, see Bad-lands. 

 Malvastrum rotundifolium, 32. 

 Mamillaria tetrancistrus, 58. 

 Manzanita, Arctostaphylos, 81, 



230. 

 Maria Mountains, 334, 340. 

 Martinez, village, 174. 

 Martynia proboscidea, 79. 

 Mason Valley, 245. 

 McCoy Mountains, 48, 342. 

 Mecca, village, 168, 356. 



Mentzelia involucrata, 64. 

 Mescal, Agave deserti, 31, 61, 77, 



80, 220, 246. 

 Mesquit, burro, 17, 30, 84, 86. 

 Mesquit, Prosopis glandulosa, 39, 



76,77.83,119,121. ,1 

 Mesquit, Prosopis pubescens, 39, 



43, 76. 

 Mexicali, town, 291. 

 Mexicans, 122, 130, 172, 282, 305, 



311, 320, 326, 331, 339. 

 Micropallas whitneyi, 52, 314. 

 Mirage, 196, 300, 317. 

 Mission architecture, 248. 

 Mission La Purisima Concepcion, 



304. 

 Mission San Pablo y San Pedro, 



304- 

 Mistletoe, Phoradendron calif or- 



nicum, 44, 49. 

 Mojave Desert, 49, 142, 148. 

 Moonlight, 28, 35, 108, 295, 346, 



352, 355- 

 Mormon Battalion, 245, 249, 275. 

 Mosquitoes, 192, 312, 331. 

 Mountain-lion, see Cougar. 

 Mountain-sheep, see Bighorn. 

 Mud-hills, 131, 166. 

 Murray Caiion, 37. 

 Music an analogy, 6, 350. 



Nadal, Fray Pedro, 321. 



Navarretia virgala, 68, 89. 



Neighbors, settlement, 330. 



New River, 290. 



Nicotiana attenuata, 75. 



" Nigger- head " cactus, see Barrel 



cactus. 

 Night, 21, 108, 222, 281, 295, 345. 

 Nolina parryi, 161. 



Oasis Ranch, 177. 

 Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens, 30, 

 50, 77, 81, 165, 201, 220, 247, 



284, 317, 346. 

 (Enothera trichocalyx, 64, 89. 



