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Sunday Oct 26th 1879
We were up & eating breakfast at sunrise + soon after were packing up.  All went smoothly until old Billy, a poor old used up pack horse, made a mistep going along a narrow part of the trail.  He failed to recover and after turning a complete summersault landed down in a pool of water three feet deep and lay there helpless. By rolling him over he gained his feet and we soon had him out.  Decided to camp a mile above and when we unpacked Billys pack a nice mess it was.  First on top came my valises.  Just one half wet. note book, diary, etc. suffered most. Matches, sugar, rice