obnoxious creatures. The wheat, which has been sowed in small 
patches, is quite green and the corn stands no chance to ripen 
• and beside the grasshoppers are taking it by storm. Camped 
after 20 or 25 miles in a little park on the Costilla. 
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August 23rd : Broke camp and set out at an early hour 
for QulfCb/ra Greek, a heavy white frost covered the ground and 
small pools of water were covered with ice. The trail across 
the divide is very bad;for ten miles of the way it was a scram¬ 
ble over logs and rocks and up and down very steep places. Twen¬ 
ty -five miles - a. long day's march - being completed, we camped 
on Gulabra Creek near the base of the peak. The Costilla and 
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Gulabra creeks are branches of the Del ITorte and in their lower 
course flow through the San Luis park. 
Aug. 21-th : Gulabra Peak. Bose at daylight, ate break- 
fast, saddled up and were off by sunrise. Followed a long spur 
that led up to the main western spur of the peak. Hitched within 
1G00 feet of the top. Made a complete panorama, which filled 
12 pages. The Baton Hills lay beneath us to the east ai^ the 
Spanish peaks made a very fine portion of the landscape. Cas- 
tilla Peak appeared in the south and Sierra Blanca and the Cre- 
tones in the north. The view to the west is particularly inter- 
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esting. The San Luis park with its buttes and wooded hills, 'its 
lakes and river courses and its blue distances,presents a grand 
aspect indeed. Descended to camp in good time. The rocks in 
the neighborhood of .the mountain are metuworphic . 
Aug, a5wh : marched 20 miles to Port Garland - a military 
post near the base of Sierra Bianca. For a few miles we were 
in the foot hills, but emerging from these we came out upon the ■ 
