Field notes, v1350
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Miguel Heeng 1969 journal 100 Qui. NW San Miguel, 5700 ft., Dpts. Cajamarca, Peru Aug. 27 (sat.) Today. If our luck holds out perhaps it will be dry enough tomorrow for us to get out. Ray put up a bat net. Along the road Dr. Koford caught 2 more frogs like the ones I got today. They make a high-pitched squeak. Aug. 28 This morning it began to clear. At around 9:00am we began our attempt to get up the road. To save time in case we couldn't make it, I began walking up the road to the house of the man who offered us the horses. Dr. Koford was to follow shortly. In 2 hours I arrived, and before the man got there, Dr. Koford also arrived. We talked to him and found out he had sent his sons back on the road to look for us. So we were about to set out by foot to Palmitos (3-4 hours distance) when we heard our car coming. Apparently Ray had gotten up the hill with the help of 4 men, and the rest of the road was dry enough. We drove on towards Palmito to get gas from the hacienda, but our rear wheel went off a bridge over a small stream at a curve. We jacked up the car and shoved it back onto the road. During this process a jeep of the Ministerio de Agricultura came by from San Miguel - a trip they make only every 2 months. They gave us gas and we continued. The man with the horses had said it would not rain today, and it hasn't. As we got down below the road was drier, though rockier, and we hit an especially large rock, knocking 2 holes