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yr plood-sucking bats oven. anere to molest miles and,stock eae T= 
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' See The day was a dusk I hunted cilmayrte in the “\““¢‘“ 
~Yaoed,, I Saw one at a longé range ang fired at it oe did 
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not kill it. We saw another a long way aft hoa 2 eek ey 35 
Rast. | 
Oct 16th ki whe up early to the Yucal car saw no cilmayrus,Jose brought 
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in z ran @ OLAS rom ‘the aocon field and a sad tale of two steel 
of carb are og ed The NS SR chikncp 
traps sprung, ed only hai? t in thems Gutea ce euneomys all have 
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shotter tails than these eed Toronto. I went re the Yucal at) 
4 pem. and waited till dusk but saw dgnly, one qs Bhageaf, This 
ed He tpnraprmorn 
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one came out only a few yards ,and sat on his avches for x, aX 
www rig 
Lone—bise looking for danger. He appetaed perfectly eee 
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I fired at him >btt missed and he dashed into the paden Xi ob 
tke=buse. very day-we-have some—-of-—our steel traps Sstt-on 
—Tnhwess—speung—but none haze yet-been a 
wage To-day a laborer brought me a fresh sking of an opssum 
Lorn 
Thés “—e the sider dryest day we have had ere, oe Ae ged 
ff 
Brey KDA re srrting OF oe 
one Son ainate misty rein all aay’) ply | Fe 
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Oct 17th — hard all ne ee Paught no cidmayrus in the traps, om 
Soa CO AAsoLy 
rots dary? rc fow more Faneomys: te wet—trape, Lt went with $ piayardonof 
m gy 
Ps ( 
err ng 
to ® other Yucals where theme! naze 01 Mayrnk runways and set 
7 ark (Wee. errs) ppl DRAW - 
traps there. Sewe convey of 3) yeas ee Penelope, in the bush 
ny ra SL Lea. k 4 
as I setting the traps. got 5 moze, Na ee bats in the 
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ranch house but saw no “@ossaphagas, oe 
Oct 18th Another ali morning hard yarey Aneer ers LI went out at_l pele 
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as soon as the 5 ope Add dey but Found 18 the ot aay raf xumeprung. 
They must have, 
where the ground has been Gon varies above the buried traps, fee 
Afeng 
a their sense of ofent re defects ve amt the natives could not 
4) oh VANLZL AME Ny Y4rzQn ei. cf ¥ fen 
shoot them at pos rangep.. ‘Those I have S608 gaz e about ine 
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tently when they cane ,eut—ot the Yuca fields os aware depend 
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on their sight to delect an enemy. I caught a light brown,*/eas 
is of 
yyzomys which looks different from the others I have secured. 
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I shot a new pigeon to-day of a winacenous and blue color . 
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Lewis brought in the supplies from Ollantayéambe. An 
Cot 19th The momning was cloudy but rainless. I went to the Yucal fe 
Ke ning = Ci mayrus but a heavy rain spoiled owe hunt, I saw one small 

