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government charter, since a chance official excursion to settle 

 a disputed oil claim on the coast afforded us this welcome 

 opportunity to reach the little fever-ridden Panamanian coast 

 settlement of Garachine near the Sambii River mouth. 

 Thanks to Dr. R. P. Strong, who accompanied us as far as 

 the mouth of the river, we got up the stream to Boca de 

 Sabalo in a small motor launch towed by the schooner from 

 Panama. After a long colloquy with the Indians, we decided 

 to strike north to a range of hills visible from our landing 

 place. Several hours' walk over a rough trail brought us to 

 the Rio Esnape, evidently a tributary of the Rio Taimiti, and 

 one which rose in the hills now near at hand. Here we col- 

 lected several days, but the rains became constant and it was 

 almost impossible to dry our collections of bird and mammal 

 skins, and besides, reptiles were very scarce. We then 

 recrossed the Sambu and marched overland southward to the 

 head of the Rio Jesus, which enters the Sambu far down- 

 stream from the mouth of the Sabalo and which runs parallel 

 to the Sabalo, but arises much farther inland. Several camps 

 were established along this little river, and then we marched 

 to the upper Rio Jesusito, a swift torrent, said by some to 

 be a source stream of the Rio Celorio. The latter small river 

 enters the sea just south of the mouth of the Sambu, nearer 

 Garachine point.^ We made two camps in the foothills of the 

 Sapo range of mountains along the Alto Jesusito. We then 

 moved over to the headwaters of the Rio San Antonio and 

 established a camp on the slopes of the Cerro de Sapo, a peak 

 nearly 2,000 meters in altitude. From this point we carried 

 down to Garachine again and returned in a twenty-two foot 



^ Other Indians declared that the Jesusito "has no mouth," so we 

 inferred that it might find its way into some great marsh and not 

 really connect with the Celorio at all. 



