Mon. Oct. 1st.

Walked back to Silay and started B-3 line to straighten out some bends in line. Stayed with Humphreys. Rained hard during night.

Tues. Oct. 2nd

Ran B-3 line in A.M. and finished up at noon and started back to Bacolod. At Talisay, Patsy Gard and I got a boat and sailed the rest of the way. Rained in evening.

Wed. Oct. 3rd

Took soundings off the beach at Bacolod, all day, to find place for channel. Gard, Patsy, and White in boat with taos, and Weston and I took bearings from shore. In evening Weston, Hill, Cooper and I took dinner with missionary here. His wife is from Hingham. Seemed kind of strange to eat in a civilized manner. Rained hard duringthe night.

Thurs. Oct. 4th

Stayed in camp and took up two rolls of pictures with the company camera. Sent to Manilla and ordered me a swell kodak. Wrote to Charlotte Perkins. In evening, Reese, Putnam and Capt. Smith took supper with us. Sent away a lot of postal cards. Rained hard into night.

Fri. Oct. 5th

Taking soundings again. Didn't take any in P.M. on account of wind. Move camp to-morrow.

Sat. Oct. 6th Dulao

Moved from Bacolod to barrio of Dulao, had quite a walk. First thing in morning Cooper fired White for talking in his sleep. Fine day all day.

Sun. Oct. 7th

Laid round camp and took a few pictures with the company camera. Barbered some of this outfit. Wrote to Ma and Abbie. Cloudy all day and rained at night.

Mon. Oct. 8th

Hill, Gard, and I went back about four miles across the Sumag River. It rained hard all day and the river rose about six feet and was absolutely unfordable. We tried for about one hour to ford it and finally had to swim it. The current was going like __and Gard came near being carried down over the rapids. About nine p.m. the cocheros came in from Bacolod with mail and I got a letter from Ma and a postal from George's girl who wrote that Fanny McGay died the first of August.

Tues. Oct. 9th

Went back the other side of the Sumag River. The taos that we left with the instruments the night before didn't show up until about two in the afternoon so we only ran about a mile. Still cold and rainy. The rice paddies are knee deep in water and work is a little disagreeable.

Wed. Oct. 10th
Still cold and rainy. Woke up and got ready to work to La Carlota away the other side of the Bago River. The transit party stayed in to help move while Hill, Gard and I went out on the line as the levels were behind. We ran until about three and ended up near a hacienda. We went over there and the haciendero talked English so we talked with him until four and started for Carlota. After walking about one hour we stopped at a hacienda and got a boy to show us the way. The roads were knee deep in mud and it got dark about six o'clock and we ploughed along in the dark for a couple of hours through the rain and mud, forded five rivers up to our waists and finally got into town about eight at night. Found Worthington at the school teachers but no camp outfit. The teacher let us have a blanket apiece and we turned in on a bamboo bed and slept the sleep of the just. Meanwhile the pack train was having troubles of its own. They left the Bago River about five, lost the road about dark and ploughed along across country through mud knee deep. The cariboas could hardly pull the carretones and the men had to help pull the carts. About eleven at night they pulled under a sugar mill, got supper and stayed there the rest of the night.

Thurs. Oct. 11th

Rianed hard all night and all day. Hill, Gard, and I left about nine o'clock and found the transit party just at noon. Worked in the afternoon and caught up with the transit party. The camp outfit got in about noon so they had camp fixed up when we got in at night and it did seem good to get some dry clothes again. La Carlota is a pretty town in the center of a big stretch of flat country covered with high cane. It is supposed to be about half way between Silay and Hinawaylau.

Fri. Oct. 12th

Went back to Gebong River and ran over four miles, brought the line into LaCarlota. Got a lot of papers but no letters. Got a package from Roy with a fine big piece of Lucky Strike, the best looking piece of United States that I have seen in a long time. Fine day all day. Guess the rainy season is over.

Sat. Oct. 13th

Cooper went ahead to look up the country around La Castallana. Rest of us ran about two miles through big high cane. An old Spaniard came out and tried to stop us going through his cane, the last we saw of him he as headed for the house to get a gun. Fine day all day. Called on Shirrard in evening.

Sun. Oct. 14th

Pretty hot all day. Shirrard, the school teacher, was over to lunch and in the evening the supt. of the govt. farm near here was in to supper. Wrote to Ma and to Roy. Chirro cook and some of the taos pinched for playing monte. Rained all night.

Mon. Oct. 15th

Got up early and five of us walked back about twenty miles to Sumag to run another line from near Bacolod to here. Walked all day across rice paddies and got into Sumag about 4 P.M. Got a house and had a good sleep after the dogs quieted down.

Tues. Oct. 16th

Started at B730 and ran about three miles on F line to Sumag River. Barber went into Bacolod but got no mail.

Wed. Oct. 17th

Ran 5 ½ miles, breaking the record. Barber moved the camp to the Bago River but we missed connections with him and had the pleasure of making supper of rice and fish and sleeping on the bare floor of a barrio school house. These fly by night trips not all they are cracked up to be.

Thurs. Oct. 18th

Got up early and started out to look for Barber and breakfast. Walked until about nine o'clock and finally located him only a mile from where we spent the night. Ate up half the supplies for breakfast, the other half for dinner two hours later and went out and ran two miles in the P.M.

Fri. Oct. 19th

Crossed the Bago River and ran about two miles toward La Carlota. The King Crab joined us about ten A.M. full of large stories of his hardships on the reconnaissance south. Rained hard about three and we quit and came on into the old camp. Seemed like getting home once more. Found mail in camp and I got letters dated about Sept. 1st from Ma, Abbie, and Carrie.

Sat. Oct. 20th

Ran F-line into town in the morning and in the afternoon made a survey of the town. My camera came from Manila. Rained in the afternoon.

Sun. Oct. 21st

Fine cool day. Went to walk and took some pictures around town in the morning. In P.M. Gard and I took a ride on the tramway in a car drawn by bull power. Took some pictures of it for the company. Shirard and Gallagher of the gov't. farm in for lunch. Farnham arrived in Bacolod with his bride.

Mon. Oct. 22nd

Stayed in camp and helped Worthington with the estimate. Sent a roll of film and ten pesos to Manila. Ordered a developing outfit. Fine day all day.

Tues. Oct. 23rd

Went out in the forenoon and took four miles of easy topog and got in soon after noon. Fine day all day. In the service six months to-day, only eighteen months more to serve.

Wed. Oct. 24th

Went out and ran G-line up into the mountains. Walked nine miles back to camp. Capt. Bowers of the constabulary, Pittman, and Shirard took supper with us. Farnham not back yet. Move to-morrow. Fine day but hot.

Thurs. Oct. 20 th

Left La Carlota on another canned-salmon trip as Hill calls them. Ran G-line straight ahead and got up into the foot hills so abandoned it. Stayed over night at a little barrio and the house was so infested with ants and mosquitos that none of us slept at all.

Fri. Oct. 21 st

Started out on I-line toward Guinigirau. Ran two miles and camped in the barrio of San Isidro. The town band gave us a serenade the first part of the night and the dogs kept us awake the rest of the night. Fine weather these days. The north monsoon is on now and the back of the rainy season is about broken.

Sat. Oct 27th

Ran about four miles on I-line and came into Guinigirau at night. Found camp here and Mr. Farnham back once more with news from Manila. We start locating back from Himamaylau and construction starts in the spring.

Sun. Oct. 28th

Laid around all day enjoying a good smoke of tobacco that Mr. Farnham brought down from Manila. Wrote to Ma and to Berry. Took some pictures and had a good swim in P.M. Fine day all day but rained at night. Pretty hot all day.

Mon. Oct. 29th

Weston and I stayed in camp and worked on the estimates all day. Cool and cloudy all day and thunder shower in afternoon.

Tues. Oct. 30 th

Went out on line and did yesterday's and to-days work and moved into Bimalbagou at night. Cold and rainy.

Wed. Oct. 31 st

Went out on line but came in at noon sick as blazes. Same way as I was at Nagasaki. Didn't sleep any all night. Rained hard all day. Guess this dry season business is a fake.