Auguet 28th i went out shining last night as the moon allowed 2 hours 
of doxkness before rising A large goatsnake was seen along 
the road in numbers and £ shot 2 and @ the latter were 
different in color and contained eggs ready to desposit. Shan 
shined a fine red deer liazanea size of a gray andean deer but 
fh color with biockish head and legs exactly like the 
bush buck of africa in general body color. This one contained 
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the sise of an syuirrel. Stomach contents were 
several olive like fruits of palm, pieces of orange fruit of 
Solomon and a large soft fruit size of a pricky pear; also 
many leaves but no grass whatever. Teeth well worn Exchuyual 
pit small. Several families of Machigeangas came to see the 
egamp this morning. The women wore Long robes and the men muah 
ornamented by necklesses of seeds pods of severnl plants, also 
+80 bills and beads of 2 species of torcanns and some parrote 
together with stones of agdntis and monkeys. The men were less 
¥ 
with only a few beads in the case of boys with a 
sathers.s “They had the cheeks and 
pigment from a cultivated plant however. 
gave them and they 
One of them had a shot 
large knives but few bows and 
went over to the stationand saw 
he had one golden prehensil 
collard pecarry, one white 
all of which were red like 
I shot. none being bay colored. A good many Machigangas 
arrows were scen in one of the houses . They made with a recd 
a cedar head and fenthors at base with a spiril 
vome of the feathers were macaquras. The bows are made 
of very bord wood which is deep black like ebony. 
btained from the stem of a slender prickly palm. A 
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Some pecarry cé@llard was seen to-day feeding about the place. 

