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and the hotter trail I took one day in search of plants -- then the trip on a flat car to [[strikethrough]] Quebradas [[/strikethrough]] Morales -- excitement over reported arrest of Bennett in Honduras, and deep scheming for communicating with American consuls about Major A. and Human, if they didnt show up on time -- the two hot days' collecting on the grassy llanos of Cristina -- then several enervating days of doing nothing at Quirigua, and the misery of seeing others get stacks of letters but getting none -- the relief at coming home one day from Amates, and finding seven waiting for me -- the pleasure of finally greeting Aahmead & Human at Amates, and being able to move up there with them instead of living at the Quirigua Hotel with the others whom I detested -- the staying up at night to make a map and description of my Florida-Playitas trip for the Major, which he said saved him a day's journey later and enabled us to catch this boat -- the eleven hours' ride next day over the trail to Izabal, when I got plants galore but had nothing but whiskey & cigarettes for fodder and read your letters received that morning over and over -- the last two hours of the trail, which I beguiled by singing the Wreck of the Hesperus and all the other songs I knew to my defenceless mozo -- the final entry into Izabal, smoking my last cigarette, reserved for the occasion -- then the two and a half hot days there, and the Pontederiaz Ichthyomethia, Trichibia and so an I got around the lake -- also the [[strikethrough]] Similar [[/strikethrough]] Sarsaparilla, which I was spurred to get partly by the receipt of a letter from Safford announcing his recognition of the existence of that vegetable -- the tiresome wait on the third day, when the boat promised did not show up on time, & the others discussed plans for escape by another boat - its