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SMITHSOXIAX F.XPLORATIOXS. I918 



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Fig. 36. — To obviate the danger of specimens molding while in transit 

 from the collecting ground to the Museum, it was necessary to drj^^them 

 in the hot sun for a short time before the}- were finally packed. A boy 

 was always detailed to guard drjing specimens against domestic animals 

 such as pigs, fowls, goats, dogs and cats. 



III.. },"/. — .\ primitive melhocl of plowing. Tlie ricf ticlds over- 

 grown with grass, since the last harvest, are tloitded and jjlowed by 

 driving a herd of water l)n(TaI<tes around and around until the grass 

 is completeiv trampled beneath the surface of the mud. 



