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I got rather nettled myself, & insisted on explaining things to him. But we got along very well. I went out collecting with him two or three times, & found that, as Mapon had said, his methods were prehistoric. Gilbert said that he had started to put his collected plants between sheets, and I do and every one else does, & Pittier made him take them out and put them simply between driers, as they dried more quickly that way - and fell to pieces more quickly in the herbarium he might have added. When Gilbert went he left a small bundle of plants for me to dry, & when I opened them at Amates I shook out a small scorpion from among them. It was about the third I have seen. All of them were small, not over four inches. Human ran his head into what he said was a small tarantula which hung from the eaves of a house at Paraiso. He jerked his hat off in a hurry, and stamped on it - the tarantula. I have seen two live snakes and two dead ones, three in all (one of them was killed by the guide, so her counts twice). I saw a piece of a boa at Zumbadora, as I wrote you, a green snake about six feet long on the trail, which the guide killed, and a little 8-inch snake dead by the roadside. I have wandered many hours altogether thru all sorts of snaky places without seeing any. The little lizards, and the bigger ones too, green and brown and striped, have become quite familiar to me,

Transcription Notes:
Person's name is Human - not Aumen. This person was mentioned in last page, and definitely an "H", not an "A". Added "quette" at top; was missing from transcription. NOTE: have deleted "quette" - per guidelines it was transcribed at end of preceding page to make a complete word "etiquette"