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of bread cooked hominy and dried beef + I guess we can eat a good square meal as a piece of dry bread + beef has answered since breakfast at sunrise.

Oct 21st 1879.
Left camp early and reached the Colorado at noon. No without some rough road however as at one place it was swim or stop for the animals.  But we are here at last + I feel repaid for the labor altho' I am about used up tonight.  Head ached at noon but that has passed off.  My right thumb nail is coming off result of a bruise + is troublesome. a blow on the left thumb with my stone hammer consequent upon the right being out of order, has healed the end of that and in a