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1927
El Tablon, Lake Guija, Dept, Santa Ana, Salvador
May 25, 1927- Today I ran
a trapline in another section.
This place was known by
the native as "Mal Payes" or
bad country. The vegetation
was thick and fairly heavy
but due to sharp lava
rocks all through the region
no people occupied the ground
for agricultural purposes.
This flow of lava obviously did not come from
a crater but from what
might have been called
blow holes. I crawled down
in one of these more or
less crater like holes where
I used a flashlight to
light my way. There in the
cracks and crevices I saw
a colony of at least thirty
vampires [illegible] both old and young. They
hopped about for dark
corners when my light was
turned on them. There
were no other species there.
I followed the trail farther
into the more dense jungle.
The lava rocks were thick
and, now, they gnawed
away at my foot. I at last
came upon a ledge which
projected up from the
sub light about forty feet.