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Wed May 2: Very high clouds in afternoon. A
Only rain. Mist towards evening, etc.
(6 at daylight) (5.197) (at 10 am. during through).
Peak of 15 slope of PASINAMA & the end of 14
Cut backs at 805 m. (ditto in camp when 5.6/1 730 m.)
Then cut to crest at 885 m. (Vale 340 m.). Climbed
Down then on a south of the crest. 26 myriums of
Nola (agace) & other broad-leaved plants with
Styphelion
& Lonicera carpogalata, a great erect Gleichenia from
formed in 1783 on Mr. Dagman & Tocqueville's Rd., 8
including above it on the S. slope an open stand of
Eucryphium climbed to 3-5 m. It filamentous and
fimper conspicuious on branch 6/4 of the crest.
Blocks obtained distant views from the crest;
but got a glimpse of the RUNAMIA promontory.
Mt. OBIA (2,880) magnetic; a courtyard peak
appearing about equal in height was 140°
rounds
of an age, probably in camp, 305°. North end of
NUKAKATA Island 185°.
The beach was a good find. Collected were
several trees of the 'many fern' unfamiliar to me. An abundance of sheltered Scandent (can't too in
forest generally of open canopy, probably as a result
of damage by hurricanes winds years ago.
Ran (followed it) back at 10 afternoon & now
in for an out of 6.5 hr. crest. Mammal signs (?)
include sprouted yellow clay under moss—Cleft that
parts, & what looks like runways. Much shooting
into it while finished the last night: 2 Nyctinomus.
Thursday May 3: Mist on & off a good part of day after
2 PM.
Botanized down to back in the shunted, open, heavily
wooded Eucryphium (forest). The conifers only 8ft. high
at 1° east; Physochidia & Mycody by lane (very about
3/4in) comma 16 branches. 18 Pachyphyllum, in