Field notes, v1523
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stomach. Serve dry with blackberry, some rose hips, and other stuff. Stopped at La Lydia between the town of Jogo Puerto and the lake. Read over the storage and honey extracting shed, lots of droppings. No lots/present (one scripta mummy) but the lady (Sra Armando de Slau) said she had seen lots flying there last night. We returned at 7, strong a set, and waited for lots until 9:15. Nothing, Temp. mild. [illegible] flying around the yard right. During the afternoon called on John and phone Gough, outside El Bolsón, who were reported to know about the last mummy outbreak. Turns out that he was in here at the time. He remembered it as early 1940s, she thought a bit earlier. He said the mice came down out of the mountains from Chile, - because the baculo-cold dried and so they had nothing to eat. April 26 Wed spent the night at Hostería Slauer in El Bolsón. At 10 am went out to elotes shop farm 3 kms north of town an revisited the big rock crevice where we found mummies a year ago. The boy on the farm (Flavor) went with us. Found one bat in a high crevice, torpid. Another don't make! lots of fat. Air temp outside the crevice was 7½° inside the crevice 12°, and mummies/pictographs on the cliff face in red. Then drove north. Beautiful clear, mild day, stopped to skin a few miles north of Jogo Sculland in wire-bamboo, got 6 macabre traps for maybe ½ hr. One strong but none caught. Heard one sing; a very