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16 February 1972.
Flores, El Peten, Guatemala
decided to look for seller - D saw him pay equiv. $95 for
cocot palm. On the mountains recently, he saw a machan in tree, a
spider monkey [illegible] (jaguar hunter). | Small blue leaf 1:30. Hot.
Through patchy forest, cultivated fields (corn, banana). Fair decent road.
Logging trails entered at X.
Passed small town - Libertad, San Francisco. Arrived 4 pm. a cable
ferry - large across river (de la Paz) to Sayaxche. Hotel Sayaxche at
far side. Bring couple (Stevenson; Sunnyvale, Calif.) there. On walk in
diving room, photo of women Julia's today & other with jaguar skulls. (Other
show large tapir with caught by people. Small, 1 hotel, lumbering town.
Road extends on to west, when again meets river. | Julia returned in sun.
About 40. Willing to talk. Suggests Mayasito Garcia as experienced hunter (w.
Lake Petenitlan). Best place along Rio Usumacinta - tracks a player. Cocot looks
to see the jaguar; flees when turn on light. Jaguar