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[[underlined]] June 28 [[/underlined]]. Did not sleep a wink all night but fought mosquitoes which were in a dense swarm and wildly bloodthirsty. They covered my mosquito netting so I could not see through it and crawled under and even through the seam of my sleeping bag and enough got inside to bite me constantly inspite of all I could do. They crawled down in the bag & bit my feet & the whole length of me. There were quarts of dead mosquitos in my bed in the morning. The light streak in the east was very welcome. Eastgate slept in the tent, but with no better success. The horses went wild & broke loose from their picket rope but were caught. Their skins were thick & swollen in the morning, and ours were sore enough so we could sympathize with them. 

Caught 2 [[underlined[[ Pergonathus fasciatus, [[/underlined]] some [[underlined]] Peromyscus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Microtus [[/underlined]].

Started early, came through Napoleon & across the rolling prairie to Streeter & camped on a hill just north of town. Not a tree or bush all day except in towns. and a few very small ones at ranches. Generally not any.