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July 27 Thursday Camp III
Every thing is damp this morning and
we feel our in the broken up.
Everyone is busy packing his material
to ship to the railroad. I have two
packs which I have addressed to him.
I suppose they were rebanded.
We broke camp by nine and got
started at ten. At noon we take lunch
at Thornton ranch in the bottom of Rock
Creek. Here is a fine example of streams
crumbler not less than 8 forks in a
half mile of medium bottoms. It rains
again quite heavily by one and near
three we have built camps ad rain.
On approaching the highland before
we enter the Inman county are see
flock after flock of antelope. They
are in herds of from 8 to 72. Thirty or