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(29)  Oct. 31th 1879
Farewell October. To me you have been an eventful month in many ways and tonight I bid you goodbye willingly, still, not without a sense of regret as your bright beautiful days have appealed to the higher esthetic sense and more practically have enabled me to work with energy & comfortable surroundings. I bid bid you farewell.
   At 8.A.M. we left the camp. Jane carried the heavy pack & the other three animals the remainder of our worldly goods. Slowly and sure we wound in & out, up & down, around great boulders, thro' the water and after twice unpacking & once making a swim we reach our present camp at the natural sponge (mentioned when going down) above all the bad places and near the trail altho' rough in places will