Field notes, v1502
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Murray 1942 11.3 Journal June 13 Fa Laguna to Todos Santos seem to have .22 rifles. The weather up here has been quite dry, a little cloudy in the mornings and clear the rest of the day. Maximum temperatures ranged close to 80° and the minimums just over 50° At 10:30 we were on our way down again, this time taking a different and very much steeper trail almost straight down one of the ridges. This apparently had been built by the woodcutters, who work part of the time in Sa Laguna and have a house at the west end of the valley hauling the wood down by burro. It would have been foolhardy to think of taking the animals up this, however. Part way down we came upon fresh deer guts and found after that one or some of our Mexican visitors had shot it coming down. Dr. Benson has the skulls of all four deer. Saw a group of white-throated swifts flying over a deep canyon after we had come some distance. Most of the way down there were some Calij. Jays, but saw none at all up on top. Through making better time down and