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paces distant but whether any shots took effect we could not tell none were killed outright = one day while hunting for a stray mule I passed within a rod or two of a Prairie wolf who stood & looked at me very impudently. I raised my pistol to fire, but as I had no ammunition, & only one lead, & as I might have need of it before I returned, I let the wolf go, & rode on, image - check mark the birds that are here most plenty are Ravens = Crows =Magpies = Woodpeckers = Ducks = Geese = Cranes etc in the valley above are Elk & antelope & in the hills black tailed Deer & Grizzly bear = an indian came into our camp with fish for sale one fish resembled a sucker another Rock Bass also sun fish & lake herring. 6th left camp for the mines. thought of going to "Reddings Diggings" near the head of the Sacramento = travelled up the east bank of the river = saw the Prairie on fire & four Elk shot at them with my pistol about fifty or sixty rods distant = but probably without effect soon after saw three Antelope & herds of cattle & horses the cattle were quite wild, travelled about 15 miles = grass poor at our camping ground 7th started & travelled about three miles to Vernon? at the junction of feather river & Sacramento. Fremont is small place just started on the opposite bank = a house that was unfinished in Vernon had already cost $17,000; a house of the same kind could be built & finished in N York state for $1500 = the shingles were not on & the windows not in & most of the siding yet to put on,, travelled about 15 miles = & camped 4 miles beyond Nichols? ranch on Bear river = at this time of year it is only a small stream, our mules crossed the stream in the night & we had some trouble in finding them, we here found very good grass - 8th we crossed the Yuba river a tolerable sized stream, camped again on the banks of the sacramento grass poor - 9th nooned by