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impressed by the fact that the house would not burn than that 

 it would turn back arrows, and promised the Britisher no further 

 molestation if he would only tell them what tree it was that pro- 

 duced the marvellous bark of which his house was built! They 

 would like to grow such trees themselves. 



On January 2'2 the shore-station was set up at Las Palmas 

 aviation-field; and for several days, determinations of the mag- 



A Wayside Shrine in the Andes of Peru 



Religion plays a very large role in the life of the natives — in fact, there is probably no 

 country in the world in which the church is so powerful. 



netic elements were made to find out what changes had taken 

 place since our last visit to Peru. 



Callao offered a remarkable contrast to our other ports of call 

 in that very few visitors came to inspect the ship. Captain Davy 

 of the United States Navy and his group of Peruvian naval- 

 school cadets were about the only ones to show any interest in 

 the scientific aspects of our work. The Peruvian naval and 

 aviation services employ American officers to train their men, and 



