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D. Hamilton
1967
Jurnal
July 9
Km 213 Pan American Highway, 110 Kms, 42 Km E of Cosmo, Dept Ancash, Peru
On route from de foybte Km 213 to first m Pan-Amer. Highway, Dept y Ancsh.
un arrived, Drivng by 1100 am on road to go, Amrson in son
diress life is not entirely a thornless bed grew as the car base
Down in sanden dig it at a grove of to get stuck again.
About 1230 pm managed to read the lighting a distance of less tha
1 Km. I'm not sure how many times we got stuck total, at last
the till sun until any smiss - for can do in sand or just not much.
Km 5,
En route from Km 213 to Cosmo, Depto. Ancash, Peru
We had N along the Pan American Highway. Again the surroundin
green is very desolate as no pass seen area that seem entirely lifeless.
We also pass scattered hills frequently seeming to be entirely
lifeless. Occasionally saw some as far scattered Tellerandria
plant growing in them. At km 238 pm were within sight of
the ocean and pulled to the side of the road. We walked about 100 yds
through sand to the H2O's edge. It had run very sandy,
as was covered with faint track & many licks which we thought were
probably made by some sort of birds. Saw the first two thin water
many feet high lagoon grass. And quite up several Brown
Pelicar, Leicurus accidentalist, as our skill of Oranye Cormorant,
Phalocrocer bagzinovillii, Serenier Bony Dells, Larus modestus on
Kelp Ball unseen Larus dominicanus. Studies seen were on Black Oystercatcher,
Haematopus ater, on Senigulated Plover, Charadrius Charadrius semiplanatus
and about the Sandpipers, Crocethia alba, Desert larkin, Sula variagata
many White-rumped Petrels & unknown species. They were probably of
genus Oceanites possibly oceanicus. (It is very difficult to get
good view of wetted area of their hides). After about one-half
hour we departed this area, aiming to pick on. The morning's