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(25) 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