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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SPIDERS OF SOUTIIERX MEXICO 253 ranches on the plain, and the remaining days were spent on the slopes of the hills about 1200 feet above sea level. Finally I decided to go to Tapachnla and the (niatemalan border — although it turned out that I first had two days of good hunting at a rubber plantation, La Zacualpa, on the way to Tapachnla. When we reached Tapachnla on the evening of Thursday, August 5, the rain was falling in torrents and did not stop even for a moment until Sunday. We wanted to reach the Guatemalan border from Tapachnla and return on
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E. O. Uovey, Photo., 1906. ON THE TEHUANTEPEC RIVER. the same day, the distance l)eing only some forty-eight kilometers on the Pan-American Railroad, but the country was already so flooded that the train proceeded very slowly. At one place it stopped, and a ditch was made to allow the water to run from one side of the track to the other, while an improvised support was constructed for the rails. Meanwhile the rain began to fall again, and when, late in the afternoon, we reached the last station, about one kilometer from the border, the conductor was so afraid of a washout, since the wheels of the cars were already plowing through water in many places, that after only a twenty-minute wait he

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