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Transcription
Quest
1948
Journal
119
June 13 Todos Santos, 50 ft. Baja California
about 200 yds NW of town. A small stream
for irrigation flows in the fields here and
the bats, particularly the Tadarida mexicana
and Lasiurus ega, congregated over a spot
where the sugar cane fields met the palm
trees, other trees, and the stream. The bats
were flying at 7:15 and continued doing so
'till dark. I shot two Tadarida mexicanos of
which one was soot black; presumably from
roosting in a chimney during the day time.
June 14 Mina Palmar del Medio 400 ft 4 mi ESE Pescadero Baja Calit.
Camped last night on the playa south of Todos
Santos. Minimum temperature there last night was
59 F.
Visited a mine at the above location this afternoon.
Pescadero is a small village south of Todos Santos,
the principle industry of which seems to be
raising sugar cane and corn. The road to the
mine we investigated turns off the main road
about 2 miles south of Pescadero and leads
into the foothills of the La Laguna mountain.
The mine was located on an abandoned road
about 500 yards south of a small canyon
containing a dozen palm trees from which
the mine was named. It consisted of a
single horizontal shaft about 75 yards
in length and curved in an arc so