1927 P3. Barra de Santiago, Dept, Ahuachapan, Salvador March 28, 1927 - The natives here drive their wooden canoes or dugouts about the net work of tidal channels or lagoon by means of a long pole. We hired a canoe today and went off to look over the mangroves. Instead of taking a direct course (as most of the natives do) we spent most of our time going around in circles. At last we pushed into a narrow channel and here we made more progress for when we ran on the sand we would push off toward the other side before we started circling. We saw hundreds of Racoon tracks Procyon in the salty mud under the mangrove roots. The mangrove roots were from three to seven feet high, and one could make fairly good progress climbing over them. Some roots I that I saw