El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P.12. Barra de Santiago, Dept., Ahauchapan, Salvador April 13, 1927 - The day was spent on a long threesome trip to a place were directed by natives of the village. As usual we found nothing. April 14, 1926.- Last night we crawled into our dugout canoe and poled down the main tidal channel to the west where a branch led off to the north. Here the channel was about seventy five yards wide with the dense mangroves on either side gradually drawing closer together the farther we pushed our way up the channel, We tied our canoe to mangrove roots when we thought ourselves to be opposite a certain point on one of the islands formed by the tidal channels. This island was perhaps fifty acres in extent. After climbing and slipping over the arched mangrove roots for about fifty yards we