This volume is entitled "Notes of a Tourist through the Cactus Plantations between San Antonio & Polafox," and covers the period 21 November 1871 to 8 January 1872. The volume contains the daily entries of a traveler, possibly a woman, with the medical portion of the "Band of Hope" [12 December 1871] detailing a circular trip taken in Texas to San Antonio to Laredo to a post near Rio Grande City to Brownsville to Corpus Christi and back to San Antonio. The purpose of the trip seems to be to inspect the post and hospitals at those places. There are also a few side trips to the Mexican cities of New Laredo, Camargo, and Matamoros. The entries contain notations of miles traveled each day, as well as total number of miles traveled. The writer also describes the weather, the country being passed through, and the people encountered. There are also some miscellaneous notations not related to the trip, as well as a poem.
