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Transcription
AK Pearson
1969
13
We were doing cyto-tax work in the tent both
afternoon and evening. The temperature dropped
spectacularly as the m[illegible] disappeared, and we had
spent the night in the tent.
July 9, 1969 4:ten ENE Pucusa, Dep't 2 Lina.
Woke up with a wild headache this morning.
We broke camp while Carl figured up
showa (my traps had nothing), and headed down
the road. Myrnel also was having a bad headache-
the first symptom of distress she has shown.
We picked up Myrna, Ray, & OP's traps down
the road and then went downhill to San
Jorates where we had breakfast at a little roadside
restaurant .... our first meal out in Peru!
Arrived in Lina about 11, had a wash-up
visit at the Davis' house where we also
picked up some mail, and then back to Papa
Leon Tree.
I drove over to "cactus hill" set where Carl
wanted to set some traps. There is an archeological
sample on the side of a hill there, showing about
1 1/2' of human sedimentation - shell fragments
interspersed with dark dirt and fibrous stuff.
The site seems sort of strange: neither at the
top of the hill nor at the bottom.
Carl & I pulled apart carnivore droppings
after supper while the others were working with
mice. Among the prey items were (from 5-6 drosoph)