4 hours until noon. We stopped for dinner at some hut situated in corn-fields. Here there were about 4 families, some cattle & goats. The people opened very soon. The children played in rows. One little girl was 6 or 7 years old, entirely naked & associated with the other children unquestioned. It was quite cool at this altitude, 8000 feet but this child did not mind it. All this place the soil was bright red & the country sprinkled. Frankonia is now looking like yellow flowers. Holly has been, also red fruit, water-green bushes. Small gentians were in blossom of a light blue color. A very neat leaved thickly spring species of Berberry was common also. In the afternoon we followed a coloral valley & climbed up into the cultivated fields of dry corn stalks, turnips etc to its head at 1000 feet where we camped at the same fork above which rose a