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Smallpox is required to re-enter the United States. 4) Get
poosesaion of the certificate of ownership and motor aerial
number of your oar. 5) Have a photostatic copy of your birth
certificate and a fev passgort photographs. 6) Have your bank
dasue you a letter euteblishing eredit at eny bank in Guatemala,
otherwise, you sennot caeh an euergency check without eabbegran
of authorization which wih] cost you $10.00, Convert all of
your money inte travelers checks, even though you will not be
able to cash them except in the lerger villeges in Gustezsla.
Many of the Guetemalens are not acquainted with thés monetary
exebange. 7) Gollect a good set of maps of Guatemala, inoluding
World Aeronautice] Gharte, neweet road map isaued by Seao O11
Gompany, Netionel Geographic maps and deteiled maps of those
areas in which you expect te work for specifying collecting lecal-
ities. 8) ¥rite for gun and eolleeting permits. 9) Contact
nearest Guetemalen and Mexican Gonsula to sequires tourist cards
($3.00 each). 10) Compile = list of 212 equipment (for. austons )
including serial numbera of cameras, binoculars, gun’ ete.

11) Arrange with reilroad company in Mexico Clty for a flet oar
to transport your car into Guatemala, Thia can be erranged

more conviently on the spot in Mexico Sity, but if you are driv-
ing straight through, an earlier reservation ia desirable.

12) Get your collecting equipment together. Here is a partial
liet of equipment that I took into the field in 1954-22 long
rifle shelle, 410. shotgun (over-under), 410 shotgun shella

Nos. 4-6-12, oleaning outfii for gun, frying pan including lid,
apatual, spoon, kndfe, fork, pressure cooker and oxtra rubber
gasket, dish pany scouring pads, soap, rinse pan, five gallon
white gas eet, gasoline stove (extra generetor) smell funnel,
gas lemp (extra generator and mantles), terpolin and ropes,
window sereens for car, sot net, aerosol banbse, nets for bats,
mapa, books, aamera and film, tripod, sotton for preparing
specinens, metal boxes for storing specimens, skinning equip~
ment including sawdust and large fleshing mife, binoculars,
altimeter, compass, counting disk, water cans (2 No. 10 gales)
traps (Mus, Speciale, gopher, steels (No. 1)), collecting bags,
oatmeal for trap bait, spot light, medioal ket including

nalazon tablete, medicine for amebie dysentery and malariel fever,
kneesboots, hdead net and hat, thermometer, pen points end Higgine
Eternal Ink, soft lead pencils for marking treps, relector mirror,
wateh, alarm qlock, paradichloribenzene, extra mosquito netting,
emall sleeping bag, skinning table and chair, notebood paper,
wrist pad, insect killing jar, eigar boxes, insect net, jars

and aleohol for reptiles, receipt book, stamps, stationery,
interspring mettrees and pillow, blankets, plent press, colleat-
ing shests and trays, siphon hose, bucket, metches. Of the
staple foods which I carried with me are: Orisac, canned butter,
bread, cereal, salt, peper, esmmed milk, postum, crackers,
eanned fruit, osmned soupe and vegetables, bacon, potatoes,
egg8, canned meats, fresh fuite including bananas, pines pple,
oranges and grepefruit. 13) arrange with your local police

for a statement of your record. 14) Get a statement from your
dootor of your present state of health. 15) Be sure to include
your drivers license.

In vagard to transportstion, I would advise using a two-ton
truck, which is especially equipped to meet the requirements of
Living, storage and laboratory. Drive to Guetemak via Mexico.
Agcording to present Guatemalan Oustomsrpgulatione you should
have no trouble getting your car through. All that is nesessary