Wind: S.E. 1 - E. 1 - S.E. 1 - E.S.E. 2 - S.E. 1-3-2 
Temperature: (a) 82-89 (b) 72-80 
Weather: C - C BC - BCf (23 p.m.) - C 
0728 1st party ashore. 
April 14, Monday, a.m. Returned from farthest inland. Had a spotty 
night due to mosquitoes. "Dope" helped for short intervals. One covered 
body as completely as possible. Tied pants to top of socks so there would 
be no gap betweenj also shirt or coat (I had raincoat) needs to be buttoned 
up tight to neck and over exposed part of face; around ears and back of neck 
put towel saturated with mosquito dope; ditto spare shirt which pulled up 
under chin and covered hands folded on breast. One hated to move and practi¬ 
cally didn’t for fear of disturbing "covers" and letting mosquitoes in. As re¬ 
sult of all .covering, hx only nose was out and enough of cheeks so that ©yes 
could see out from under towel and watch moon’s progress across sky from east 
to west. Cloudy sky at times with silhouettes of leaves of trees against the 
gray (luminous almost) backdrop. Bed was brush (springy) £±±i piled up high 
enough to cover inequalities of ground surface and "pinnacles" of rock. 
Fire was kept going most of jiight by one or another member of party. Started 
rain again at earliest daybreak and everybody almost automatically got up to 
prepare for breakfast and the march back; You know, it takes pretty good light 
to see what’s what of rough terrain, fractured lava blocks in all directions, 
up in frequent mounds and dykes, with unexpected holes deeper than one’s 
leg at times and enough to break your leg; smaller holes, too; got my toes 
bent up so kharply in one that I thought my foot had gotten pressed into V 
shape. It hurt for quite a bit, but one did not have much time to think of 
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hurts or cuts, scratches, cactus spines, or thors, for if your attention 
flagged a 
mere moment you might miss your footing, trip over a vine, or 
bruch too closely against a cactus 
