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 much interest. I think I have been fairly successful and I believe the skins will reach you in good condition, I think they are mostly good. As one must expect in these countries, we must fight the ants.

The dry season seems now to have fairly begun and I am trying to make the best of it.

The last of this month or early in January, I expect to go with the touca-?? gatherers, up to the head waters of the Cuchivero river into the Guanapimeto(?). I probably will remain there for two or three months. I might say also that from these mountains are the opposite side the Ventuari? river has its head.

The birds have kept me so busy that I have not yeat had time to do anything to speak of with either the