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1861 Sept 10 Tues
16th Enc 5th D 33 D out

opposite to where I started to cross.  I then made across the plain to the [[strikethrough]] River [[/strikethrough]] side on bank of the big river.  There I found much water pouring, roaring, tumbling down over boulder rocks widely spread out for a river's bottom.  Some considerable of the distance this river is hemmed in by high banks of fine sand - the rivers course serpentine till lost away up in the mountain pass.
As I could not prolong my walk on account of enfeebled body I made for the Sand hill where the rivers empty their waters together into the narrow Bay that makes up there.  As I was making up the incline leading to top of this small hill, I found the ground [[underlined]] blue! [[/underlined]] A bright azure!  [[underlined]] Blue [[/underlined]] with [[underlined]] blue-berries! [[/underlined]]  I do not recollect in my life of such a sight before!  The berries were ripe - all ripe - plump & large!  I craved a feast of this kind.  I had it to the satisfaction of the 'in-man'.  The berries needed but little crushing in the 'hand-mill' as they were in such ripe order that they would almost dissolve as they were passed to the mouth.  I found a very expeditious