C. Koford Journal 65 March 1972. Truck ride to new lumberyard near km. 34, before Los Cuesos. Home of Don Emilicio here, and waited for him, but did not return and shut us out all on Sunday. Had hoped for truck ride to forest. | Took a collective "cobe" to Centolops, local beer to Tuxtla, where went to Hotel San Carlos. 7 March 1972. Same cumulous clouds; cool. Took beer to Don Cintolo's bar near Cerro de la Sombra (Blom) Pat, an assistant from Calif., told us something of Lacandona. Agua Azul headquarters of people who hunt or take people hunting. Lacandon made clay figurines of jaguars, fairly lifelike rather than symbolic, about 4-5" long, some painted (see in museum). They also used jaguar (and other) teeth for decoration - saw one necklace, with teeth between seed beads beads. Bird claw shotguns also used. Some Lacandon chants begin with jaguar phrases (?). Hunted jaguars with bow, arrow, now with guns. Authority on jaguar is Robert Spence at Mex. Anthrops., Mexico City. | A guest writer said that in February she had accompanied a group from American University (?) on a jaguar hunt, starting from Escuintla, going by 4-wheel drive car. They killed peccary, but set out for bait, waited at night in hammocks, but got no cats in 4 days (she then left). | Ema "Toby" Blom Blum is very talkative and of strong opinions. She did not know that jaguar-ocelot hunting and trade illegal. Very worried about deforestation, hunting migratory agriculture, in Selva Lacandona, and apparently lecturing related on this subject, with slides, in Mexico City. But she has no specific incidents to concerning jaguars. I saw at