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tomorrow morning. To hedge my bets, as I really want that
other species, I'm giving a baby bottle full of formalin
& with a self-addressed tube (to Sam at MVZ) to
the missionary, as he says he has seen quite a few on rainy
nights in his yard, with a couple of dollars for air-mail
and I'll tell him just to throw those he finds only in
his own yard, into the formalin which will kill them
and fix them, they won't be straight but I'll have
some. I'm sure he'll do it as he has become very inter-
erested in sales due to me, and he's going to do a
ten minute spot on his radio station on sales (his mission
is primarily to run an Indian (Y dialects) and Spanish
religious radio station here).
This evening a young guy came to the
hotel looking for me saying he could catch some
winos dormidos for me perhaps, and that he had
a "piedra antigua". I bought the stone for $1 and told
him I'd buy animals but that I was leaving at noon
tomorrow. The stone is very pretty, and seems to be finer work
than in most stores, so I think it may be real. He says
they come from the river.
Sept. 11 - Talked relig. vs. science with the missionary
(Bill Verth, radio maya) finally, no problems but no