Field notes, v1404
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C. Koford 201 Journal Chile September 30, 1952 Chuquicamata, Prov. Antof. then in regular store. Meals at Chiles Club also good & very reasonable. Charged large check for years at 14/ to (here. Perhaps 100 or more Americans here & better houses with all the effects of U.S. October 1, 1952 To Ojos de San Pedro, nr. Chuquicamata With family & trailer drove to Est. San Pedro. Eric Nilson, who has a gasoleta business there & facil- ities for repairing trucks, was friendly & well sold us gasoline & some supplies when needed. We drove on to near Ojos de San Pedro & I set 29 traps near Tola (moutly cedar- leafed kind to 1 tall; some to 7') and rockies. Thick grass near stream but no sign in it. Salty deposits at border of clear fast stream and great growth water plants in stream. Nilson said there were guanacos to west of the river at Est. San Pedro. He recommended pompa near Putona for ostriches, perdices, vicunas. Wind strong after 4 p.m. and clear all day. Rudolph came by after a trip to Ojos Acostan & said he saw tricomeres & vicunas. October 2, 1952 E. of Est. San Pedro The traps had 2 small Abades by 6 p.m. In morning 12 more mice; of the 14, 7-6 small Abades, 1 Nesperdups, 5 medium Phyllostis, 1 large Phyllotis with rather short tail, 1 Cligmodontia. We departed Ojos about 1 p.m. Camelids, Amos flavinectivie, many small fawns, & other linds there. From the usual source of the water (Ojos) we drove toward Tocanes. 6 miles