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MFSmith
1993
JOURNAL
Nov, 19 El PeƱasco, ~5 km N of Maldonado, Depts. Maldonado, Uruguay,
were supposed to get back to the Facultad
by 10 pm. Some people are staying another
night at the house, and they set the
50 snag traps and 8 Victor Traps that
I brought to Enrique, so they may catch
some more mice after we leave.
The members of the field party
includes Joe Cook from the University of
Alaska, Enrique Iossa, Guillermo D'Elea
[illegible] (a master student of Enrique's),
Mariana Gosse, Federico Hoffman,
and Ana Zey Porzekansky, who are
undergraduate students at the Facultad,
and Gustavo , who belongs to a local
group that is interested in collecting
mammals. Noel Cottine, Enrique's other
master student at the moment, was unable
to go on the trip.
On the way back we got to the
outskirts of Montevideo at 10pm. They
called The Facultad to be sure someone
would be there to open the gate,
which is locked at 10pm. No one was there,
so we had to revise the plan. We left
the live mice at Federico's house and
Zito dropped us off at Enrique's house with
all my gear. Enrique agreed to borrow his