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2 unclear words death to the vermin was decreed & off went his head - Stevensons on Pringle's ck Saturday 8th E by S. S E some perhaps little more southerly some 7 miles cut the Presidio road ^ Pringles Ck runs into Leona - two bold? tracks but grass growing over it - fine country pretty open - no water. 3 Miles Musquit & good pastures open country to Esperaza - (Nolo digas) ^Pringles Ck - 6 more of same country to Los Olmos (Camp Cupptes) Water at present in holes but pastures good

  For the first time since we have been travelling - few showers of rain.
  On the W side of Olmos Ck run a range of hills (Grieves hills), about here they form many ridges, commencing at the head of ck & terminating in the forks it & the Frio.  Wherever there is a River or creek, there is a ?idy