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haven't scciiiod Hiiythiiifj; .so very .sturtliiifi;, although we undoubtedly 

 have birds and mammals new to science. 1 have been fortunate enough 

 to secure specimens of the rare Copuolestes, a very primitive marsupial, a 

 specimen of the even rarer fish-eating rat, Ichthyomys, a fine Yapoh or 

 water opossum and big series of "foxes," squirrels, monkeys, coati- 

 mondis, etc. I haven't shot any large game yet, we have not been in 

 any good game country yet, but I have a native-killed specimen of the 

 Spectacled Bear, which is quite a rarity, and a good skull to go with it. 



"I have some excellent pictures, both of the country and of the 

 people, who have some very interesting industrial i)ursuits, such as 

 spinning, weaving of wool and cotton, threshing wheat and other grain, 

 peas, etc., by driving horses or oxen round and round over thepiled-up 

 sheaves, winnowing the chaff from the grain by aid of the wind, etc, 



"Pigs are given the freedom of the city streets and enter the houses 

 at will and so far as I could see we w^ere the only people that paid any 

 attention to it. The pigs carfy "chiggers," a kind of small flea with a 

 propensity for going right into any subject he takes up, and it needs a 

 sharp pen-knife and 1 don't know how many damns to get him out. I'm 

 wrong there, it is a her, and that explains the obstinacy, — a her because 

 it lays eggs. We have dug numberless chiggers out of our feet and even 

 now after having left the swine-infested regions we still feel the tingle 

 in our toes that tells us we have overlooked something. 



"Yesterday we spent the day at the hospital and took the hook- 

 worm treatment, as we have both had some minor stomach trouble and 

 the doctor suspected hook-worm, as about 90% of the natives have it 

 at one time or another. The treatment certainly ought to make the 

 hook-worm sick; it did us, I know. But we didn't have any after all 

 was said and done ! 



"But I mustn't give you the impression that such disagreeable 

 features as I have been enumerating are the predominant thing here: 

 they are not; it only means that they are of such recent occurrence 

 that the}' loom up out of all perspective. 



"The scenery is beautiful everywhere we go, and one never tires of 

 looking ©ut across such a wilderness of mountains. The trails lead off — in 

 imbelievable numbers when one stops to think what it means to get a 

 well-worn trail across some of these mountains — stretching away in 

 long snake-like jjatterns to disai)pear, twenty miles away, into the blue 

 distance, droppijig down to ford rivers and then ascending the steepest 



