and is firm and good. Camp is in sight of the town of Questa,
upon a very elevated bluff.

21-3/4. Laguna Colorado.--Road passes through a wooded country for a
portion of the distance, but leaves it before reaching camp,
where there is no wood, but water generally sufficient for
trains. In very dry seasons it has been known to fail. The
road forks here, the right leading to Santa Fe via Galistio
(45-1/2 miles), and the left to Albuquerque.

22-1/2. San Antonio.--Good road.

18-3/4. Albuquerque.--Good road.

Total distance from Fort Smith to Albuquerque, 814-3/4 miles.

Total distance from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, 819 miles.

* * * * *

II.--_From Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, by the way of the upper ferry
of the Kansas River and the Cimarron._

[In this table the distances, taken by an odometer, are given in miles
and hundredths of a mile. The _measured_ distances between the crossing
of the Arkansas and Santa Fe are from Major Kendrick's published table.
Wood, water, and grass are found at all points where the absence of
them is not stated.]

Miles.

From Fort Leavenworth to

2.88. Salt Creek.

9.59. Stranger's Creek.

13.54. Stranger's Creek.

9.60. Grasshopper Creek.

6.50. Grasshopper Creek.

2.86. Grasshopper Creek.

2.60. Grasshopper Creek.

4.54. Soldier's Creek.

2.45. Upper Ferry, Kansas River.

7.41. Pottawatomie Settlement.

5.75. Pottawatomie Creek.

3.89. White Wakarussi Creek.

7.78. White Wakarussi Creek.

6.27. White Wakarussi Creek.

0.73. Road from Independence.--No place to encamp.

5.72. White Wakarussi Creek.

2.51. White Wakarussi Creek.

2.82. 142-mile Creek.

7.80. Bluff Creek.

5.77. Rock Creek.

5.08. Big John Spring.

2.29. Council Grove.

7.97. Elm Creek.--Water generally.

8.06. Diamond Spring.

1.42. Diamond Creek.

15.46. Lost Spring.--No wood.

9.25. Mud Creek.--Water uncertain; no wood.

7.76. Cottonwood Creek.

6.16. Water Holes.--Water generally; no wood.

12.44. Big Turkey Creek.--No water.

7.83. Little Turkey Creek.--Water uncertain; no wood.

18.19. Little Arkansas River.

10.60. Owl Creek.--Water generally in holes above and below crossing.

6.39. Little Cow Creek.--Water only occasionally.

2.93. Big Cow Cr