P. PEARSON 1952 62 jungle. Dusklighting from 8 to 9:30 (moon almost full) saw one small mouse and, in a grassy slope, a deer. Shot it, an Odocoileus, not herved. Also saw a bat while dusklighting. The local indians say only one kind of deer here. May 7 Day clear but sun gets into this canyon late and leaves at 2 pm. Used to be a small lake where we are camped. Tropics fair. 6:15 - 34° frost 11:00 - 59° - 46% 5:15 - 50° - 68% 7:30 - 37° 1:35 - 62 - 37 9:00 - 40° - 74% 8:30 - 45 - 88% 2:30 - 60 - 41 6:00am - 33 - 89 10 - 54 - 56 4:10 - 54 - 64 7:45 - 40 - 90 Skinned deer etc. Koford arrived in p.m. Fairly good flight of larks at dusk. Carl got a small Myctis nigricans? May 8 Fairly good trip, catch. Left about 8 for Cuzco etc. Road goes down to Pucatambo at 9600', then up to the Pucatambo - Huambuto pass 12,750ft. Quivira as low as 9600' at " The big bean plants from Pucatambo up to 11,500. The pass is then all flowers but quite dry, shallow-soiled, rather poor looking. Challa comes at 9900'. Stopped to take pictures of steep folds on way down to Huambuto. Those photographs are not the steepest - just happened to have people dragging potatoes. Some quick shopping in Cuzco, then up the hill toward Anta to camp. May 9 All morning winding down into the Aburive Canyon. Becomes quite tropical - if dry before the bottom at 6500ft. Coming down into this canyon we encountered sugar cane as high as 8000ft; also cana brava. Considerable caters & thorny scrub. Lunch with the guate at the bottom, then up the other side with views of gorgeous snow - capped. At 12,100 were pasture, bushier, colcolavia, some trees. At 12,800ft still bushier, pasture, colcolavia, yellow 'boerica', not real