El Salvador field notes, v4501
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9/4/25 To be grain and seed pulp. The grain is probably from my trap bait and the seed pulp is probaly the jocote stone or kernels. In some water lillies and cats claw (mimosa-brush) I caught a cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus -). The trap cracked his skull so I threw him away. September 5, 1925 - warm and windy. Heavy rain in the evening and night. At the mouth of a canyon on the south side of Lake Olomega not far from our camp is a [illegible] three acre [illegible] brush and grass patch undisturbed by cultivation. The patch is bordered by the lake on the north side, a corn patch on the south, and on the east and west by sub-tropical jungles slopes or ridges which gradually draw closer together farther up to form [illegible] a rocky jungle canyon. Along the lakes edge the water [illegible], carried across the lake from the swampy region by storms, have started a growth which is twenty to thirty feet wide in places. The water is knee deep on the [illegible] or the outer edge and gradually decreases in depth until on the inner edge there is only a mushy substance through which the [illegible] roots ramify. Just back of the water [illegible] and sometimes miped with then is long rough bladed grass