Wednesday Oct 5 Hudsons Hope We decided that Georg and Dan would go down to St Johns on a raft taking nothing but food for the trip and send up a canoe for the baggage, while I will stay there and collect Accordingly I set out shortly after breakfast to start the raft at a place about 2 miles down where Dan has found some sticks The others joined me at noon and we got the raft made and they started off about 4 o'clock I returned to the fork and set up my tent in a good place and made everything secure by dark Thursday Oct 6. Hudsons Hope The morning was rainy and it rained all the forenoon. I improved the time by doing some needlework washing, and in the afternoon took some specimens. Shot a muffed prairie close to the spring The wood rats have made caches I shrewdly saw a few squirrels, Cactus etc. Nettles on bushes beside the buildings and in a deserted cabin, where I caught one. Foxes also Micrortia which is abundant about this fort clearing. In the late afternoon an Indian appeared across the river and later came across in a small canoe cause he had come from Mobely Lake and was without food but as I am in nearly the same fix I could do better for him. He thinks the boat will arrive tomorrow, having heard from another Indian that she had left St Johns.