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suffering in store for us from the want of water, not avery — 
pleasant reflection for us under such an intense sun—ther- 
mometer one hundred and four degrees in the shade. The 
night passed restlessly on account of the attacks of those 
humbugs the mosquitoes. 
Gnats, flies, mosquitoes, &c., are all very troublesome on 
the plains, but all these together oanuat compare to the 
attacks of the most diminutive of thé whole insect family, dhe 
red bug. This little atom—for it is so small that unless upon 
a shining white surface one cannot see it—is of a brilliant 
searlet, and buries itself in the skin in such numbers that the 
whole surface becomes the color of the insect, causing irrita- 
tion to such a degree that the contact of clothing is almost 
unsupportable. 
The only relief is to bathe in a strong solution of salt and 
-water, which destroys the insect and allays inflammation, 
‘although the remedy is—for a time—almost as bad as the 
disease. : 
July 25th,—The morning opened sultry, and sunrise found 
us on a course West of North, and entering a most desolate 
Tegion. We were all drooping, when about nine a. M., 
Jacobs, who was some distance ahead, suddenly turned in_ his 
saddles and discharging his rifle at a beautiful fawn, gave a 
whoop and started in pursuit, : 
The little creature, frightened, came icodion directly 
along our line, running the gauntlet of our fire, and half of 
those mounted started after it, so sympathetic is an incident 
