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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