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one corner to the other. From here the road is merely a narrow ledge excavated from the steep slopes with no attempt at smoothing the surface or covering up the [[left margin]]B[[left margin]]exposed rock. Gradually it gets into the pine belt and one is surprised a little to see ferns and many other "jungle" plants growing beneath the tall scraggly pines. The latter average eight or ten inches in diameter, frequently have no branches for fifty feet with a small "head" at the top. The needles are rather sparse on the branches, and the whole forest is anything but dense or dark no matter how [[left margin]]J[[left margin]]close the trees stand. I drove off the road a ways to conceal the motor, made a bed of fern fronds and the canvas motorcycle cover, ate my rationed supper, and started out with the lantern to see if I could [[left margin]]I[[left margin]]attract anything to the light. I am beginning to think that the lantern is too bright. I sometimes catch things that fly against my light-colored shirt but usually nothing comes to the light directly. This time I caught two large June beetles flying about, but nothing came to the light itself. The weather was rather cool [[end page]]
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up here at about 6000 feet, but there were a few fireflies about. I got at least two and then turned in expecting to do better the next night. At 5:30 next [[left margin]]J[[left margin]]morning I was awakened by a tremendous cawing, and looked out to find about two dozen large [[left margin]]O[[left margin]]black crows sitting all around in the tops of the pines and screaming at me with all their might. Occasionally they would caw in unison, but one or two couldn't keep time and soon spoiled it. Finally most of them left, but kept up their racket in other parts of the forest. On the previous evening I had seen several small flocks of parrots, rather small and green, but not as noisy as the crows. There was also a large dove which made a sound like a turtle dove, but with three [[left margin]]J[[left margin]]notes, like a whip-poor-will. The night was quite cool, and thought I slept in my clothes with a [[strike through]]ol[[strike through]]woolen blanket and rolled up in the canvas, I was a little chilly. I had plenty of water in the side-car, but the lunch I brought was a little small for three days, and rationed out came to one egg, two small sandwiches, and a banana per meal. [[end page]]