Field notes, v1350
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Mypnal Leeng 1969 journal 94 35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Dept. Cajamarca, Peru August 25 (cont) to the road. I set 21 sherman at tree buttrees, holes among rocks, under logs, and above logs. Then I came back to camp, injected mine & Dr. Kofuds mine, and took 15 folding shermans and 10 snap traps back down to the Hacienda Jaulis, when I set them around boulders in a meadow there. The cows were very curious as to what I was doing, and I had problems with them closely following me and setting off the traps I had just set. One cow tried to ram me, but I blocked it with the trap box. I had left all my snap traps & large shermans set last night out, so I have about 85 traps set now for a mile on either side of camp. In the pasture at the base of a large tree I saw 4 large bird eggs: (illegible) about 3 inches long. They were white with sparse tannish spots marks. Perhaps they are turkey eggs. There was no hint of a nest, and the eggs were cold. 3:15pm. I guess the chromosomes of the Doryzaups were just fated not to be taken. After the 20 minute citrate period I discovered that the centrifuge did not work. I could not find the hand centrifuge, so I thought maybe if it was the batteries fault, I could run the tube on the car battery. It still didn't work. The centrifuge itself was at fault. Apparently it got knocked around in the car. By the time it got fixed the cells had been in citrate 30-40 minutes, but I