23 So for 75 cents I made it to Barillas, in about 3 hrs, on the top of a truck. Upon arriving I went back to the Hospedaje Terraza where I had stayed before, and got a very nice room. I asked where I could cash a travelers check and was directed to an American missionary family who gladly cashed a $10 check. I stayed for supper, which was very good and quite american, and talked with the family until quite late, five people, never got onto religion at all. I've said that he'd seen salamanders here, several in recent months, but that they were scarce, we looked around his gard but found nothing. He has backpacked around the entire area (lived in Barillas 18 yrs) and knows a lot about the people, animals and land. Sept. 9 '74 - Got up early and headed up to a promising pine forest I'd seen on the way in last night, from 6:00, till past 7:00 I turned logs and stripped bark, no bromeliads, found nothing but usual ants and 3" grubs. Then went down along the river below down into a caftal and turned leaf litter and stones for