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at 7 a.m. climbed part way up the first canyon east
of the threnda and found one beautiful cave made by a
large overhanging slab over which water will
cascade in the rainy season, lots of ferns in the cave
and one summer snail.
We saw only one hummer in Dorist Canyon - a female
bathing in the stream. The stream is loaded with aquatic
mollusks but apparently no trout.
Left at 1 pm and camped in a sterile field a
few miles short of threnda, no traffic out
july25 Left about 8 for Cuzco, arriving 5:30 pm
july26 with dysentery during the night. Andly
to Muchu Pichche, Stansied slides etc.
july27 Left about 8 a.m. for Alorway, delayed 1 1/2 hrs
by trouble unset - spilling passengers & cargo
500 ft into gorge, Camped at 12,600 ft at
dusk a little before the pass down into Alorway
(18 km NE Alorway), put about 50 Sheranz
among scattered boulders, a large boecbariz, low,
thorny chubbs, and plowed fields interspersed with
grass. Night clear at first, then partly cloudy.
july28 Nothing in my traps. Andly caught 2 big
Ph-darwinii, Left about 7 a.m. for Alorway
(9:30), then towards Parquino & Camped at 22 km
S. Chalhuarcam (10,700 ft) - beauty grazed grass, scarily,
a few stone walls, saw torrent ducks twice on stones in
the middle of the river, at about one below Chalhuarc