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give their course - Comanche Peak 5 or 60 ft. high - Passing Nolan R - prairie Country is gone through lazy? the upper & lower Gap ? - then along to Big Washita - Some 3 unclear words the S. Canadian Forks for Red River Which they had passed - ? times laid down right on R's Map - Made Prisons at Anto Chico on the Pancos ? on the Puercos - Waggon Rd comes into St Miguet Thru Peaks - The Center further the two others flat - Le Grand ?to the ? - Dr. Widman (drowned in July or August 1842) Botanist at the St. Antonio ? his ? to Smith (Mississippi - Must have been at least 1000 or more miles St. Fé Left Austin 17th Sept - Made ? 18th fine Friday 21 8 am 76º Rain - noon 77º - Rain this Rainy weather is uncommon in this period of the year & will render the coast unhealthy - Dinner with Dr Desmond & party with Capt ? - ½ past 6 PM William Dyke died of congestive fever - he has had of late several rather severe attacks of intermittent fever caused principally from perhaps too much exposure