March 8th 1881 I have hunted the locality where the "Fool L mail" were said to "use", pretty thoroughly several times but fail to find them. I found where the covey had sat over night some time ago. It was in a little hollow among the brush As our provisions are about exhausted we shall have to go back to Galeville in the morning. From there we will go to Morses Mill, which is on the other side of the range from where we are now camped and only about eight miles distant air line. By the nearest wagon road it is over seventy miles, and by the nearest way a horse could be rode and led, about two