enters the Frijoles canyon just above the ceremonial cavern, a mile or so above camp. This gulch also was deep and narrow, we crossed it and found a fair trail on east side. Saw a mule deer (doe) and Robbins shot at it with the shotgun, but of course without effect. Saw deer signs several times. There are cattle and horses in the worst part of the canyon. Reached camp at 4:30 just as it began to rain softly. The rain continued until 9. p.m., at times coming down lively. Up canyon the tent rocks show clearly that the protecting caps which formed them were fragments of the general hard cap rock which had fallen to the slopes and lodged there.
Rito de los Frijoles, N. Mex. Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1910.
Partly cloudy morning. Put up the skin of a squirrel caught by an Indian, He had skinned it in trapper style, without leg bones and cut down breast instead of down abdomen, and without measurements, but I made
