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[[underlined]] June 19 [[/underlined]] Sent Surber over the mesa on a hunt while we wrote reports at camp. Two cowboys came along and told us much about the country and game.

A hard rain & hail storm struck us about 5 P.M. & raised the streams to roaring torrents.

[[underlined]] June 20 [[/underlined]]. Broke camp and started for the Canadian river, to the north. Crossed the RR & the Pajarito Creek and around the west end of Mesa Rica and down along a valley to the north of it to near the N.E. corner of the mesa and camped.  

Aneroid read 4750 at camp, 5200 on highest ridge [[strikethrough]] east [[/strikethrough]] west of Mesa Rica, and 4800 at camp. Were mostly in open country with gentle slopes. But followed some gulches & ridges through junipers near the mesa. The Pajarito Valley is covered with low mesquite & yucca & guiterrezia & Opuntia arborescens and the valley north of the Mesa Rica is the same.

Camped in a cove of a low juniper Mesa near Mexican settlements. A hard rain & hail storm came up just at camping time & furnished plenty of water. A hot clear day.