1927 P.14 Barra de Santiago, Dept. Ahuachapan, Salvador and scattered with Crab-eating raccoon tracks. The roots are just high enough to hold the branches and foliage of the mangroves above the salt water at high tide. Limbs, trunks, and branches run in all directions and at all angles. In many places aerial roots may be seen dangling down from a height of thirty feet to where their tips reach the salt water. Crabs are always racing up and down these roots. A carreta road leads back into, from a sandy bank on one of the idal channels, to what might be called a swamp forest by some and an arid Lower Tropical Zone by others. In truth it is both. Along the road are tall trees, some with many vines, some with few, and some with none at all. Here and there are clumps of cocol palms and mango trees. Some areas have been cleared off and are now