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[[preprinted]] 70 [[/preprinted]] Haiti 6.

[[margin]] VIII-6-35 [[/margin]]Started at 9:15 AM for 3-day trip to south-east
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corner of Haiti. Route was from Port-au-Prince through Croix des Bouquets, Gauthier, Fond Parisien, Fond Verrettes to top of pass on road to Bodarie. The distance is about 65 miles, but it took over seven hours to make the trip. This was owing to the condition of the "road" and the steep grades which heated the motor so that I had to stop frequently [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] to let it cool. As far as Fond Parisienne the road is fairly flat and is near to the Etang Saumatre which lies on the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This region is part of the so-called Cul de Sac plain. In two places the rather poor unkept road had been flooded by streams of large gravel, which came in from the side and covered the road for 100 feet and 200 yards respectively. These were difficult to cross and required a little road-building. From Fond Parisien the road climbs rapidly up the side of a valley, switches back over a ridge, down a short dugway on a new section of road, and along a dry river bottom for ten miles to Fond Verettes at about 3000 ft. elevation. This is the last [[strikethrough]] G [[/strikethrough]] outpost of the Guard d'Haiti and
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[[margin]] I [[/margin]] the end of the telephone line. Along the road I made several stops to collect in dung, with some success. A small species of [[underlined]] Canthon [[/underlined]] was abundant; also [[underlined]] Aphodius, [[/underlined]] a large species of [[underlined]] Cercyon, [[/underlined]] and a few Staphs that looked like [[underlined]] Oxytelus. [[/underlined]] I found two of the Canthons rolling a ball of dung in the road. I didn't have time to watch to see if they were really cooperating or merely both trying 
[[margin]] J [[/margin]] to remove the ball for themselves. From Fond Verettes the road apparently is rarely travelled by anything but horses and mules. Even these frequently follow shorter paths along the floor of the valleys. The road rapidly rises to 4000 ft, at which point it becomes practically a dugway on the east [[strikethrough]] side [[/strikethrough]] end of the Massif de La Selle, overlooking a large valley containing the Lago de Enriquillo. This lake lies entirely within the Dominican Republic but the boundary runs along its edge at the foot of the mountains. A wonderful view can be had from here, with the lake far beneath and high mountains in the background. The lake itself appears to be very shallow; at present a large sand-bar crosses it diagonally from

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canthon If in doubt of spelling of latin bug names I find it helpful to google and keep a list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds-Verrettes Same goes for place names - although if spelling mistakes made transcribe them.