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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] to 15 miles of Brownsville [[/underlined]] level surface, many ponds or marshes, and good roads except where the mud is deep. Reached Sauz Ranch about dark & camped. Grass short, mosquitos bad. Very warm. [[underlined]] April 30. [[/underlined]] Continued southward from Sauz through the same kind of flat mesquite country with good road except where muddy. A perfect jungle of Mesquite, Huisache, Parkinsonia, Condalea, Cactus & Yuccas. Crossed the Rio Coloral about noon. Camped at a little mexican ranch Came about 20 miles, roads flooded [[underlined]] May 1. [[/underlined]] Traveled south for about 20 miles & camped at edge of big marshy prairie where the road turns west to Brownsville & 15 miles from town. Left sandy soil & struck flat clay soil about 25 miles from Brownsville. This is the real river flats extending along both sides of the lower Rio Grande & is considered rich land. It is a perfect jungle of Cactus & mesquites.