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[[underlined]] To Zuni 

Sept. 21 [[/underlined]]. The alkali water made both Hotchkiss & Birdseye sick so I had to get breakfast & then eat most of it. Got Perodipus longimembris, Thomomys, & Onychomys. Birdseye made up 3 skins and we got started at 8:30. Followed the only traveled wagon road about 6 miles to Ojo Caliente, a poor little pueblo along the sunny side of a hill, then turned north to Zuni, about 12 miles. Got grain at the store and went up to a spring near the big Zuni Dam and camped. In going around by Ojo Cliente we left the river valley but came into it again below Zuni. It is a wide, level plain, of good soil but somewhat alkaline. It is mainly covered with saccatone grass Atriplex canescens & some Sarcobatus, lots of Bigelovia canescens & leafless & dark green twisted leaf form, Guterrizia, Croton, Cleome, Solanium (blue), Helianthus, "Helianthella", and in places a rank smelling Dalea. To or three large cottonwoods of a wide leaf form grow along the stream below the Pueblo & one on a side gulch above.