74 Naturalist at Large 



low a lizard which had run into the boot on the foot of a 

 corpse, even though the corpse was pretty well dried up 

 and shriveled. This drying happens quickly in this ex- 

 cessively dry climate. 



Some friends of ours, the Arthur Jacksons, had lived 

 for many years in La Paz in Bolivia. Arthur had charge of 

 the interests of the Boston and Bolivia Rubber Company. 

 Through him I met a Mr. Dunleavy who mined placer gold 

 at the junction of the Kaka and Beni rivers, far down in 

 the Amazonian forest. He gave me a lizard which he had 

 picked up near his gold diggings and one which was not 

 only new but which was one of the most beautiful that I 

 have ever seen. It was ringed with sharply defined bands of 

 black and ivory white and the whole under surface of the 

 beast was suffused with a rich rosy hue. I named it Diplo- 

 glossus resplendens and it has never been found again from 

 that day to this. By a curious coincidence my cousin Gor- 

 don Barbour now owns and operates this same gold field, 

 flying in and out from La Paz with his own airplane instead 

 of riding over the bitterly cold Andean passes via Sorata 

 for days and days on muleback, formerly the only way to 

 enter the region. 



The Jacksons knew the railroad people well, and were 

 aware of their hospitality to strangers. They arranged for 

 a day at the ruins of Tiaguanaco. We had a car hitched 

 to the early morning train from La Paz to Guaqui on Lake 

 Titicaca. This was dropped off at a siding near the ruins, 

 which are directly beside the railroad track. We lunched 

 in the car and returned from time to time to deposit our 

 plunder until the evening train picked us up and brought 

 us back to La Paz. I had an unforgettable experience here 



