1927 Los Esesmiles, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador February 4, 1927 - at an altitude of 7500 feet on the mountain side we encountered many places where the pines and oaks had been cleared away. Some of this ground was occupied for corn fields, some for pasture or vacant land where grass and brush had grown up. The arid region gradually worked into the humid or oak rain forest. It was especially on the wooded north slopes where the humidity was most noticeable, there ferns were abundant and heavy; the oak trees were loaded from the main trunk to the smallest branches with parasitic growths. The tree trunks, old logs, and in many places the ground was covered with a carpet of rich green moss. As we advanced farther along a ridge and into a heavier forest the brush and ferns slowly disappeared and we found the moss everywhere, especially on roots and old logs it was as much as three and four inches thick. Everywhere the ground was wet