of a light yellow color much like the Comanche rocks of this vicinity. None substantial houses of the Comanche well nearly faced. The old missions and the Calamos of undressed Comanche are the round and motion. Butter ships, saloons and emporas stars in just evidence. The white people are very fair, comely built and evidently at the mother. The topography here don't flat. As we come south to Laredo the country gets slightly more hilly, the forest trees disappear and we are shrubs, much mesquite, the leaf cactuses (sp?) are almost no grass. The flora is totally different. Water is apparently very scarce and near Laredo we see irrigation works - water is brought in modern structures for the dikes to the east. All in all the country has a desert appearance of there is too much vegetation. A semi-arid region. At 5 P.M. on came the Rio Grande. The water flows at the rate of 3 miles per hour or faster in very thick of a color between Khaki and gray. A clear flow not seen in water before. Color much lighter than clearer. The depression is hardly more than [illegible] feet.