or eversion of old seed pods, soil is powdery, completely dry, only a few inches deep over clay. Other plants include numerous small fleshy-rooted succulents [illegible], a clump of small spiny castor, a few scattered [illegible] tufts of the brick-red steel-weed garden, and some powdery delonix. Lots of arthropod holes in the ground, mostly empty, but a few with spiders, dead beetles, and one with 1/2 live goblins. Dead small snake common, 2 live snake tracks to side of a rusty oil drum. Goblins not uncommon under tin etc at trash heaps. Lots of tiny foot tracks, large dog track, Burhinus tracks (rare). Under clump of Tillandsia we found only a few spiders; I saw no silverfish here although Carol saw some yesterday a little further up the road. Found one large scorpion tail, Carol saw a hummingbird. Fox droppings contained mostly scorpion, snail shell, mouse legs, hair, and one unidentified small rodent. The hard layer under the surface powder is covered with white, even on side hills the crevasses face south. It was in fog at 6:30 am arrived Tarata room and moved into house no. 35 28th of July, [illegible] Cloudy until about 8:30 a.m. Cleaned old house-cleaned Tarata. House cleared late, then left for Maravilla at 2 pm. camped at "Benson's farms" 3 pm (see his photo 8/5/68). We make it 12,900 ft, 6 km NE Tarata, round approximately on the Tafis sheet "Quimoflaga" because quimbo (Polyphiza) is the dominant vegetation and there is a lot of harvesting of it hereabouts. I put out just before dark 41 small shrimps baited with a mixture of crushed corn and