1892 
Bov. 15, Wednesday • Mr. II. came the evening of the 13th and re- 
Lerxsa 
(Campeche) 
turned to Mexico yesterday. The Indians hare rather queer canoes for 
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navigating Lerraa Lake. They are altogether different from anything I 
haw seen in any .other part of the country. Shay appear to he all about 
the same sis©* I Judge they are IS feet in length, barely wld© enough 
for a a>n to sit in. They are very Shallow and run to a sharp point* 
both ends seem to be exactly alike. In shape they are something like 
this? . 
Arvicolas and am kind of Sitcrors seem to overrun the whole country 
hereabouts, they, with a fm Rolthrodontosinrs and on© specimen of one 
other species make all the mammals taken so far frm. this valley. The 
places most favored by irvioolae see® to be grassy banks along drainage 
ditches or @1 severe and near the base of the mountains around larg© 
bunches of Saccate®. In the former situations, regular networks of 
their trails say be found. The Sltomys sarara everywhere ary kind of 
shelter ©an be found. The Re lthr odont gears seem to favor the higher and 

dryer parts of the country. Most of those taken wore from maguey fields 
m slight elevation® here in the valley. 
The whole valley is very wet. A good share of it is covered by 
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berma Lake. Wherever crops are raised on the remainder, drainage ditches 
have to be dug around them. 
Mammals taken at Sal&sar, Mexico* (List given in original notebook) . 
Birds observed at S&lagar, Mexico (List given in original notebook), 
Bov, If - Ho trees grow her© naturally except perhaps two kinds of 
willosrj on® kind grows around the lake In the wet ground and. a kind of 
weeping willow also, but it nay be that the weeping willow has been 
planted here. Many kinds of grasses are found, especially a small kind 
res«abling salt grass. I had a good view of a boat turned bottoms ide 
up yesterday,- the two ends are not alike as I at first supposed. The 
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