El Salvador field notes, v4500
Page 193
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Transcription
"killed two Urocyon and two Mephitis. January 1, 2, and 3 - 1927 were spent going from the Rio Brascotan to the Volcano of San Miguel. It was necessary to take the train from San Miguel to Rater's to dispatch our equipment to the Finca Angel which on the west side and a little to the south on the volcano. January 4, 1927 - The Finca house of the Finca Angel as recorded by my Barometer is 3000 feet. Below the house is heavy sub-tropical vegetation, a heavy sub-topical jungle. Above the house the vegetation slowly gives away to shrubbery and thin grass and farther the lava rocks and soil is bare or up to the cone, from which one sometimes sees a small stream of smoke arising during the morning we took traps and went down into the coffee region. While following a ravine on one side of which was virgin jungle and on the other was young coffee. The ravine was from ten to fourteen feet deep and was completely shaded.