Field journal of Heller, March to April 1915
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On the beach at Pcs Carmargo several reel boats made of bundles of Saripens could be seen. Drew desert as at Bayton with no sign of vegetation + the coast is arid + bold cliffs. Weather slightly hazy + cool with moment of the mountain ranges of the interior. Departed from Elen at noon + steamed north on a cool choppy sea in bracing air to Bancarmcargan where we arrived at 5 P.M. Begun unloading + receiving cargo at once. Two. The town is built in a open semi-circle of sand with a steel rotary splashing a hundred or so more into the sea. The steamers stay for out + discharge cargo into lighters as at Elen. A few green mesquite like bushes were seen on the sandunes behind the town but most of the coast was quite barren + brown + minus any of vegetation. Fifteen or twenty miles behind the town, steep mountains cloud the landscape total overights the cloudy weather. Several women came down with fruit for sale. They had many.