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Your entire visit rill be during the second 
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rainy season when transportation in the tropical Rowlands o 
Caribbean slope is difficult and often impossible. So great, 
hov ver, is the variety of birds in this ;.rea and so well known 
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some out of the wav places. Instead I would use the torn of 
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Puerto Barrios itself as headquarters where the United Fruit Company 
has pleasant dormitories and where you can easily get boats for 
excursions dp various adjacent rivers into he vy forest where you 
can sample this particular fauna. By proceeding a few miles up 
the failroad to another United Fruit Company plantation you can dip 
in in some other snot and oerhsss get greater variety. 
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bureau end make your headquarters at Tsanjuyu, an excellent little 
inn on the shores of Lake Atitlan, a mile or two from Panajachel. 
From here you can rise to 11,009 feet on the main road to Huehuetanar 
u can descend to the Pacific coast lowlands and, in other words, 
u can touch eve^y life zone you please. 
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rebe is a rare and 
e are some fish end some boats. There are only two places 
in the Lake in which the Grebe occurs in any numbers. These are 
the extreme southern end at San Lucas and the extreme western aid 
at Atitlan. Here there Is shallower water and a considerable 
acreage of reed beds in ] Lch Coots. Least Bitterns and the Grebe 
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nest. At San Lucas I had no difficulty in hiring a boat for 
as I pleased and there Is a little lake steamer 
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