On the lower levels due to the greater vege- -tation there is also more animal life. One sees black birds in schools of 50 or more and several humming-birds, bats, insects are certainly more prolific, butterflies and grants [illegible] one notices. Minute flies act some mosquitoes bother me much. Some one black bird lights on the neck of a snake standing in the field and then jumps all over his back onto the snake in the least paying attention to it. The vegetation at Carrizal is not dense in that state like the tropical conditions. Among the bushes and dense trees there are many climbing plants or just decidedly more than one sees in the North. There are no grass fields in the strict sense but everywhere there are bushes and annuals many the same for more than in the north. There are no palms below a few guavas about Carrizal. On the lower plain it is very hot and sultry for 9 to 5 P.M. Before and after these hours the air is cooler and decidedly more breatheable. A light wind from the day making conditions more agreeable. It did not rain after once. hardly any clouds evidence after 5 P.M. The night clear. At six the train goes to. Vera Cruz. Benqueul. Leave for Orizaba at midnight.