tangerine woman & child, night cool + damp absolutely cloudless 16 departed at 7 A.M.- in foggy weather which continued until 9 A.M. On the roads - brush country at the Sample Deal is not to be so but caught nothing or were they disturbed. I cannot account for this absolute lack of rodents on that farm. The country hereabouts must the soil soft + limestone bearing berries + nuts abundant, in 9 A.M. we have no much grass of annuals. About nice fields they have been lost exterminated by trapping perhaps. the city of Chem - wan at 10 A.M. street wide as in Yuma - for Country hilly road soil brick red + spine clay Road followed Pte Irving 1st which we have followed for two days + hours, east with the Yalupta. Both way + so