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Take the only road out of Banillas (aside from the one coming in) it is up the hill past the mercados and on the right and it is only passable by 4-wheel drive except when very dry. This goes straight into this finca (which is approx. 5,000 acres)
Sept. 4 '71
This morning I moved from the main house of the finca to the place the Belician collector lives with his wife. It is a small house, a shack by American standards, rough cut planks with cracks between, dirt floor, corrugated tin roof, one room and a kitchen (a sort of annex of worse construction (1"cracks) fire smoke blackened with an adobe wood burning fireplace.
Actually a very clean and comfortable place due to its inhabitants. They are great people. He collects beet insects, snakes etc. for his godfather, a man who works in the natural hist. mus. in Mexico Dato who also sends them to the British museum and Carnegie Inst. He is small, normal Indian looking, his name is Rene Tut (Tut is Mayan he says) and he went to school through high school, he's now 22 and has been making a living collecting for apparently several years, he's been at this finca two months and stays six more. He speaks a lot of English but I speak better Spanish so we usually converse in that.