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Sept 5; 1937 (cont)
and an occasional cardinal or Blue Grosbeak flew across the road.  We stopped once for a few minutes in a mixed stand of pines & oak & Lincoln shot a Bachman's Sparrow & Roy a Chickadee.  I saw nothing to shoot & was feeling too punk to care greatly.  The digestive disturbance which has been with me since Mexico City flared up again today & made things very disagreeable.

Sept 6, 1937.
Left Stuttgart at 6.30AM to go to White River Refuge at St Charles 40 miles away.  Traveled thru the rice country to Dewitt and St Charles.  There saw our floating CCC camp & our navy.  Met Terhune, Miller, Smith, [[Woodruff?]] and others.  We took a boat & traveled 50 river miles south thru the refuge stopping in Big Island to see the huge trees of gum & oak in this the only remaining virgin strip of timber in the refuge.  Then on down to railway line across the river & back to a side camp at Jacks fort for lunch.  Being a holiday the boys were all gone & the cook had an opportunity to spread himself which he did.  Then we went to Goose Lake to see a typical combination of storage unit & food producing unit under construction after which we returned up the river to our headquarters.  Couldn't get out to highway so had to send cars back without us.  Saw many migrating birds including warblers, vireos, flycatcher & cuckoos but trees were too high to