there have been clouds sailing across the sky, and periodic storms with wind and granite pouring on us. Then in between storms are tries of real quiet (and cold). Ran our traps together at 12 midnight by the light of a waning moon. Alpacas hum at night! The effect from the coral is sort of a musical note, sort of like a hive of bees. Paje says each animal gives a series of short happy sounds, that merge together with the rest of the flock to produce a h... April 9, 1974 Tuesday in Caccachore turnoff Got another Phyllois darwinii in the bio this morning, which brings our total for the long research to 20 and 5 ff. Importantly, one of the two was almost dead of exposure yesterday (I literally breathed him back to life). So we spent the morning preparing lung tissues. Pedro Garcia Jirina (name of ganador) came for a chat, as also a truck from up the valley stopped to be amazed. The morning was beautiful and sunny - what luck. So we got the first two along and into El Chedrot this evening. April 10, 1974 Wednesday Acopria Camp We decided to leave the tissues longer in the Spurr's before heating them, so broke camp this morning to move down the road towards Tacna. Pedro, who had been counting his flocks, saw the preparations and got on his bike to come over. He wanted us to sell him our famous cooker, especially. We gave him a folded Shem