1894 
Volcano of 
Turtle 
lead, cutting the new trail down the very steep mountain side of the 
south slope, going directly toward the prairies or llanos at the base. 
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two guides here took it into their heads to camp on the summit 
of the ridge again, in place of going down the slope and only by ray 
insistence did they finally start down, both of them in very bad humor. 
We descended to 4400 feet and then camped on the first spot we had 
found with sufficiently gentle incline to enable us to make camp. The 
forest was tall and dense here with an abundance of the cone-like palms. 
The men soon had the camp made but none too soon as it began to rain 
again end continued nearly all night. The men profltted by last night's 
experience and made themselves a good hut of palm leaves. Both nights 
they constructed me a cot of poles that was very useful with the ground 
running with water, 
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During the night some of ray men got up and circled about camp with 
a flaring fire-brand over their heads to drive away a jaguar which they 
claimed was moving about us. With persistent inquiries I could only 
learn of one case of a jaguar having injured anyone in this district. 
This was said to have been a man who camped alone in the forest without 
a fire and I am inclined to consider rather apocryphal. They do kill 
young cattle and horses. Despite their general harmlessness, nearly 
everyone among the natives here holds them in much dread. A negro cook 
I had was very much worried over the "tigers" at his camp. 
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May 13th» The rain nearly ceased about 7 a,m. and we broke camp 
and started down through the forest again en route for the llano. After 
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cutting our way for some hours w© finally came out on the grassy plain 
at about noon. There we found camped a party of hunters from San Andres 
who had barbecued a deer in banana leaves the night before. On their 
invitation we stopped and had dinner with them and then went on down the 
return.trail and reached San Andres at about 4 p.m. 
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