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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