Journal 23 February 1972 G. City to Talisma, Mexico (Chiapas). wide border / Departed 2:45 p.m. by Ruta Lerma for Talisima, or Mexican border. Dawn to Escuintla - sugar cane, corn, banana, overgrown fields. Palma, ceiba, never other tree. Hot. Reached border 8 p.m. No outgoing inspection, and negligible on Mexican side. We camped nearby in burned cane field. Chiapas, Mexico 24 February x 1972. Task due to Tapachula. Very large market, with much shrimp, banana, tropical fruits. Shopped. Departed 0845 for Escuintla, a bus over highway. Then by bus to Zapotitlan, small town by railroad. Then waited 2+ hrs. for truck to Rio Arriba. Ox yokes still used this area. Road ended at edge mangroves, where a few thatched - hut, open - fire eating places. Asked Roberto to take us by canoe to La Palmera, when he said Rambo Fernandez lived. Route first through bilium - choked narrow passages. Then wider. The mangroves up to 30' high, rooting branches screening from or higher 30 ft. Saw arbingers (5+), firefoot (4), coronet (2), oropay (3), black hawk (2), beltied kingfisher (6), smallish blue kingfisher (1), other birds. Esp. 20+ 1/2 naked men in water with big fish net. Others casting nets, or fishing with lines. Nearly all had dugout canoes. Even I ran, smaller boat, jacaera, little blue (?) hen, Louisiana (?) hen (1), white egrets. Channel wid- ed to 50 yds. Saw roost of 40+ ducks, large whiteman (black crown). Then 1/4 mile wide channel in mangroves. Black swutners. Esp. of 10+ Storks worked. About 7 p.m. reached Los Palmares, where about 100 stick and thatch houses (no roofs a winter), a fish & shrimp town. A tame spoonbill on shore. The Rambo Fernandez live proved to be the wrong one; other farther on at Escuintajoda, 2 hrs. farther