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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Harney Oregon [[strikethrough with large X marks]] July 20. Bailey repeated his early morning visit to town ^[[but still came back alone]] [[strikethrough]] and this time came back with Dr Merriam. He was pretty tired from his long stage ride.[[/strikethrough]] Got a lot of specimens and made them up. [[/strikethrough with large X marks]] July 20. Dr Merriam arrived by the morning stage. Coville wishing to connect with Lieberg at Andrews left us and went down to that point. We got some specimens and made them up and in the late afternoon after getting a supply of provisions we left Harney and travelled toward Burns to find the home of Culps whom Dr Merriam wished to hire to pack on the trip through the Stenis Mts. Travelled until nearly 12 and arrived at a house which we supposed to be Culps. but could raise no one. so camped for the night. July 21 Learning that Culps ranch was about 2 or 3 miles distant we left before getting breakfast and found that he had gone off to get another job. We continued on until about 8 oclock when
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Regarding the transcription of the word "hire" -- written underneath this word is the word "the" with a very tall loop in the h. It bumps up to the word directly above. So I'm pretty sure the third letter in that word is "r". "Hire" makes sense in context of sentence. @nounandverber
"Stenis Mts." probably means "Steens Mountains" in Harney County