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Nov. 7. Skinned yesterdays game which took most of the day.
Got boxes ready for packing & wrote part of my report in evening.

" [[ditto for: Nov.]] 8 Packed the specimens & my trunk & finished my report.
Got things to the depo & ready to start for Guaymas at midnight

" [[ditto for: Nov.]] 9 It is 426 kilometers from Nagales to Guaymas, From Magdalena 340 K., from Carbo 218 K., & from Hermosillo 145 K.
It began to get light about an hour before reaching Carbo & we were running over a straight, level road down the Sonora River Valley.
The hills have parted & the smoothe valley covered with Mesquits, Cats claw, Iron tree, Polyverda, & cactus stretches away on each side to a width of nearly 20 miles, I should think.
There is very little grass or small vegetation & the ground is mostly bare under the trees. All of the trees are short, round-topped forms &