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many wagtails. tjjany snail birds and Paraquets. 
May 2» 1904 . 
Hundreds of birds flitting above, us, but none seen plainly. Para- 
quets, Tririgoides and Motaoilla on creek. 
I orossed the Cateel River bo busoar trail. tfas washed off my feet 
and got gon and amunition wet. River deep, current swift, rooks slippery,. 
Followed this river all day. Above a Mandayan settlement, whence all 
the inhabitants fled at our approach, we fbund on impassable canyon with 
vertioal rook 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 the Cateel River, and at the summit of a mountain 
found the regular Cateel trail to Conpootella on the Aguean. This trail 
led us down the Cateel again and up the left bank to a point where the 
trail onnssed a mountain side to pees preoipioes and falls of the river. 
Here we turned a sharp angle in the narrow trail and captured a Mandeya 
oarrying a baok-load of rice and chickensj also a spear. persuaded 
him to show us the road t* Conposbella. Our two l&ndayan guides, 
who misled us the day before, deserted during the night. We left money 
with their abandoned spears. 
The lest guide left us to Celatagan, where we camped on the river bank 
in a gravelly sweet potato field. A shaok was erected over clothing and 
bedding partially dried, and sores dootored, and a good din-nerof coffee, 
jam, and rice boiled with a little pork and a good deal of chloken, 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 rockB not vary 
uno omf oriabljt, During the night our new guide ran for It and escaped with 
