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11/13/1925
November 13, 1925 - Today I
prepared to leave for Ciudad
Barrio but we could get no
open.
November 14, 1925 - I left for
the Monte Cristo mine with my
boy. We collected several
hundred bats which were
mostly Brown leaf-nosed bats and
Yellow leaf-nosed bats, also there were
two Grizzly bats and one Gray leaf-nosed
bat. As we were coming out of
the tunnel I noticed a bat in_
on of the lateral tunnels that seemed
to have quite long ears. I shot
it with my shot pistol after we
had quickly spread the net over
the mouth of the lateral. In the
net we caught another. These
bats I called long eared bats.
They were not nearly so active as_
were the Brown leaf-nosed and Yellow
leaf-nosed bats.
November 15, 1925 - Yet, not able
to get away to Ciudad Barrios I
made another trip to Monte Cristo.
Mr. Swanquist told me of another
tunnel on the north side of_
Monte Cristo hill which he called
the Monte Cristo drain tunnel. I
found it impossible to ride my
mule along the brush overgrown trail,
which led to the tunnels opening.
The mouth of the tunnel was caved
in but we managed to get down_
through an opening where
the tunnel had caved in, just.