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iVe brought up 2 men with us from Coclft ana sent back the other when Vidal 
returned with the extra cayuco. Then we had trouble getting help at Csnoa so 
we sent back to Boca for 2 more and extra gasoline. As we worked upriver, we 
had less and less trouble getting help. At this point, there are more men than 
we can use. 
We intended to pay #1.25 without food, but couid get nobody for that as 
the soldiers and Geodetic Survey haa paid #o.50 with food - or so the people 
said. Anyway, we upped it to #2.50 for our 4 men from Boca without food - and 
we pay the people in the vicinity #2. 
It has been a photogenic trip. There is lots of bird life. He heard one 
peculiar call like the clacking of 2 palitos. The same bird aiso makes a brrrrr 
like one of those twisters the kids use on Halloween. Dic^fshot it but a dog 
ran off with the skin in Csnoa. It is a black bird about the size of a. canary, 
with yellow breast and collar, and a few greenish feathers on its back. 
We have missed your company. It would have been quite a jungle expedition 
with your equipment too. In oraer to come up these last 4 hours, we left 
behind our motor and gasoline in one of the native houses. We hired 2 small 
cayucos to lighten the ioaci in the big canoes ana to help our men through 
the rapids. 
We didn't receive any mail on the last launch and goodness knows if we 
ever will. *’en Grauer did not come. I wrote him a very discouraging letter 
at the time we were stranded in Colon ana when it lookea as if we"would not 
get out. I tho't it would be foolish for him to spend his vacation in Colon 
waiting for the ocean to settle. However, we have 2 of the big sea going 
cayuco men with us and they say the month of March is comparatively calm - 
so perhaps the hydrographic office doesn't know what it is talking about. 
Each of our camps seems to be an improvement over the other. They have 
all been most comfortable and we have not suffered any hardships. The last week 
has been clear during the day and we have been able to move about in dry 
weather. This camp has more biting flies than any of our other camps and 
some mosquitoes. However, we are perched on a high ridge and Dick ana Matt 
rigged up an escuxsado consisting of a pole raised 2' off the ground, and 
tieo to 2 trees, on which we can sit and go over the ravinel 
Vie will look forward to hearing news of you ana your doings 
will, see you again in Ancon, unless we go on to Bocas dei Toro. 
Best from us ail to you both. 
Perhaps we 
Sincerely, 
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