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[[underlined]] Streeter to Medina & Chase Lake & Chicago Lake[[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] June 29 [[/underlined]] Caught Thomomys & Peromyscus only, Continued north ^[[18 miles]] over more sandy prairie to Medina, then N W ^[[12 mi.]] to Chase Lake & about 6 miles N.E. to a nice clear lake, ^[[Chicago Lake,]] just beyond a big black tule slough & camped.

All rolling prairie with endless number of sloughs & lakes. A few cottonwoods along old lake margin near our nights camp are the first native trees seen since the few at Napoleon. Also chokeberry bushes at our camp lake. Eleagnus bushes first seen near Medina, a small patch 2 miles south of town & others farther north & abundant at Chase Lake & our camp ^[[at Chicago]] lake. A few new plants noted near Medina, the first lily & hairbell.

Chase Lake is a shallow, stinking, barren shored alkaline slough with 4 small flatt islands & 2 long points. It is so nasty & shallow & muddy & mean that it has been left for the pelicans. We could see a few young pelicans on the island & one man said there were 2 doz. old birds & another said 100 old & yg. Neither seemed to know much about it as they had never been on the island & there are no boats in the country. We saw only 3 old pelicans, flying south for the lake.