1927 Lios Eses miles, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador February 28, 1927 - The region near our camp is a rather densely settled farming area spoken of by the natives as a plain although the terrain is very irregular. Mud brick houses are about a quarter of a mile apart, and from a higher elevation are seen dotted over the plain on the top of ridges or on hill sides. The two crops are corn and wheat. Some of the north hill slopes I show evidence of what might have been at one time timbered areas of pines. Now the unoccupied fields on the plain are grown up in fern beds and black berry vines both of which appear to be dying out. It is very unlikely that at anytime the whole plains or lower region was covered with trees; this the red clay areas was obviously covered with short grass as it is seen in some places today. The ravines are spaced almost regularly and are running with fresh cool