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zigzag trails over comparatively open hills, thick with begonias and Selaginellas, which I could not collect because my mozo had got kicked off his mule and had fallen behind -- the stop for lunch, when I collected big ants with golden-brown abdomens and other insects, and the Honduran official came up to us distinctly hostile but subsided after some parley, drank our whiskey and ate our tortillas & coffee, and permitted his picture to be taken with the four ragged soldiers who made up his command -- pictures which that inefficient Yates who always prated of efficiency afterwards ruined -- the night's camp at El Limon, a little native hut on a hill, when I slept in a hammock for the first time, with moderate success & then another day's travel, which brought us to Paraiso before noon, a hot place full of fleas & tarantulas & scorpions, where we were met by a native who had been in the States, whose behavior made the Major very worried--our departure over the hills after lunch, when I heard the wood thrushes singing & gathered compositae which had been old friends in the herbarium for years but which I had never seen growing before -- our stopping at Zumbadora for the night, & the nice bath I had in the brook -- sleep in the hammock, and the early cup of coffee, and a morning's collecting with Apollo, when I got many more Composites and saw a big snake -- the start again after

Transcription Notes:
Last sentence should read "when I got many more", not "which I got many more".