20 , 
many wagtails* $any small birds and P&raquets. 
May 2, 1904* 
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Hundreds of birds flitting above us, but none seen plainly. Para - 
quets* Tr ingoides and Motacilla on creek. 
I crossed the Cat eel River bo buscar trail* Was washed off my feet 
and got gun and a munition wet. River deep, current swift, rocks slippery,. 
Followed this river all day. Above a Mandayan settlement, whence all 
the inhabitants fled at our approach, we found an impassable canyon with 
vertical rock walls and deep water for 100 yards. I swam through but 
found it impossible to proceed in the bed of creek, so we took a ridge 
between two forks of th© Cateel River, and at the summit of a mountain 
found the regular Cateel trail to Compost© 1 la on th© Agusan# is trail 
led us down the Cateel again and up th© left bank to a point where the 
trail crossed a mountain side to pass precipices and falls of th© river. 
Here we turned a sharp angle in the narrow trail and captured a Mandaya 
carrying a back-load of rice and chickens; also a spear, We persuaded 
him to show us the road tfc Composes lia. Our two Mandayan guides, 
who misled us the day before, deserted during the night. We left money 
with their abandoned spears. 
The last guide lei us to Calatagan, where we camped on the river bank 
in a gravelly sweet potato field. A shack was erected over clothing and 
bedding partially dried, and sores doctored, and a good dinner of coffee, 
-ami, and rice boiled with a little oork and a good deal of chicken, when* 
the meal being almost finished, the river suddenly rose and drove us back 
a hundred yards to a stony hill when we slept among the rocks noi very 
uncomfortably. During the night our new guide ran for it and escaped with 
