El Salvador field notes, v4500
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December 21, 1926,- Today we checked material and packed some skulls and skeletons. December 22, 1926- About one mile north of Divisadero and on the same trail that leads to the cemetery and the Rio Seco we found a banana grove of perhaps one half of an acre in extent. The grove was about 100 yards this side, toward Divisadero, of the Graveyard mine. A small clear stream flowed through the grove, one branch of it came from the south west and the second flowed from the south, near the north end of the road they came together and I passed on through the place and across the trail as one stream. The banana trees were quite high, especially along the banks of the streams where they were from twelve to fifteen feet high; also they were grouped closely together in shady clumps. Toward the outer edge of the grove they were smaller in height and number of trees in a group. It was in the