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[[underlined]] To Gallinas [[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] Oct. 4 [[/underlined]]. Traveled all day in a southerly course over rough roads and reached Gallinas town at sundown. Camped near town - came about 20 miles. Followed valleys between tilted mesas [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] most of the way with an escarpment cliff of sandstone on our right varying from 500 to 1000 feet high & long timbered slopes running up to the left and forming the same kind of escarpment wall to the Chama River farther east. The whole country is in layers of sandstone, gumbo, shale, etc. & tilted up to the east. The breaks make narrow valleys where the softer strata have disappeared. Generally the soil is sandy, but in places it is gumbo. There was good grass all along, no sheep, & little stock of any kind. No water except in rain pools & a [[seep??]] spring or two until we reached a big arroyo about half way where a little water was running in places on the broad sandy bed. We lunched