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At Chijol we slept in an old boxcar half full of scrap iron from some wreck. Finally it was hauled away & we had to rescue our belongings. On the eve. of the 8th we went down the R.R. to [[strikethrough?]] a station called Velasco where a wood cutting camp is located. The place was in charge of a subcontractor named Fletcher with whom we stopped in a rude hut by the station. The place is in the midst of a great forest of scrubby ebony trees averaging about 15-20 ft. high. They are valueless except for firewood owing to the fact that all of the larger trunks 10-15 inches in diameter are decayed at the heart. Remarkably few other trees were mixed with the Ebony but there is much under growth of vines & shrubs & the abundant pineapple-like thorny plant so common along both coasts of Mex. Made a short walk along a trail cut into the forest. Found many sciurus negligens feeding on Ebony seeds. Tracks of deer & peccaries were common on the trail. Owing to the density of the forest we were obliged to give up the idea of hunting there & took the train out the evening of the 9th & went toward Tampico to Chijol station when we stopped to try & get some deer & turkeys. The country around [[strikethrough]] Chil [[/strikethrough]] Chijol is rolling plain covered with alternating grassy prairies & low forest made up largely of oaks. Quail(Colinus) were very abundant, & Turkeys were found sparingly & deer rather common.