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tainly quicker just to sit down and let go* This sliding was 
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so long as we managed to avoid roots, vines, and decaying stomps, -sbb|- did 
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not have a not-altogether-pleasant encounter with a rock that we see 
5 a.void^ in the speed 
half buried in the forest muck or 
of our tobogganing descent* 
Each one ot the do^en of us who completed the round trip up and 
back had, along with all his other troubles, a good load to pack back to the stfe 
ship, some part or another of our palm specimens* Prom a heavy-duty, heavy- 
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weight deck bucket psecteed with nrud and palm seedlings, to a burlap sack with 
an inflorescence plus a section of the trunk of the palm to which it was 
attached,^ segment of the bole of the tree to a huge leaf all of feet 
in length* We brought down portions of one sort or another of three different 
palm trees, besides two heavy axe several cameras, a tripod and 
other appurtenances* It was a dog-tired, well muddied, wet and bedraggled 
ra:s:k bunch that final y came out Ifesssstfksisxxx late that afternoon on the beach 
01 ff/afer Bay at the dilapidated treasure hunter * s camp, where the stream 
we had followed up so blithely that morning ftocK debouches into the sea# 
These Cocos jungles are interesting place$, too wet perhaps at the 
time of our visit for the biting ants to bother us— we had no trouble with them—* 
