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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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112 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL relief soon after daybreak to learn that the "padron" had been sighted on the opposite bank near a Mexican house. Soon he was in camp, reciting adven- tures of a compass gone wrong because of water in it, of a lost trail, and, after continual wandering through the day and into the night, an uncomfortable seemed to have about all they could pull. There was snow on this moun- tain, too; and while I will not say that I walked barefooted over it, as some one has intimated, yet I must admit that my worn footgear by this time was not such as to yield much protection. It was not manv davs before we were
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Digging for spoils. — Work witli pick and shovel is not ordinarily considered attractive, but there is a fascination about delving in a buried house with the hope of unearthing a choice piece of pottery, that makes one forget the labor involved time passed in an adobe hut trying to dodge leaks in the broken roof. Hot baths and sunshine soon effaced the memory of this disaster, and it was not until we were ready to resume our travels and found poor Daisy disabled that we began to wonder if our good luck had left us. But the walking over the rocky road was not bad and we trudged gaily onward. Of course there was the wagon, but the horses alwavs obliged to leave the lamed pony along the way with a Mexican friend of the driver's, since from lack of proper at- tention, combined with having to travel every day, her injury had grown worse instead of better. As a final disaster, the kingbolt of the wagon lu'oke off short as we were crossing a deep gully one day, with no blacksmith shop inside of thirty miles. Having by tliis time grown somewhat philosophical, we sat

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