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[[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.