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Andreas Bonilla one evening, went to his house for about 

 an hour spent in conversation. Later at the invitation of 

 Dr. Eduardo J. Trejos, the municipal physician (who had 

 spent seven years in the United States, studied medicine 

 in New York City and was one of the very few English- 

 speaking persons in Santa Cruz), we went to his house to a 

 dance. All the ladies sat in a row on one side of the room 

 when not dancing, the men elsewhere. When a lady arrived 

 somewhat later than the rest of the guests all the company, 

 if seated, arose in recognition of her presence. The music 

 was furnished by three fiddles and an accordion. The un- 

 invited part of the community stood outside the house look- 

 ing into the room through the open doors, which as usual 

 were not separated from the street by any vestibule or pas- 

 sage. 



Another day the Commission called on Padre J. M. 

 Velasco, a former priest, known for the collections which he 

 has made of Indian pottery and other artifacts obtained by 

 excavating the graves of the earlier inhabitants of this 

 region. One of his collections is now in the Museo Nacional 

 in San Jose; another was purchased by the Carnegie Museum 

 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Padre Velasco showed us a 

 copy of Volume III, Number i of the Memoirs of the Carne- 

 gie Museum, published in 1907, wherein these collections 

 are described and figured by C. V. Hartmann under the title 

 "Archeologlcal Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa 

 Rica." At the time of our visit the Padre possessed very 

 few such objects; among them was a small number of jade 

 ornaments similar to those figured in the Memoir mentioned. 

 Padre Velasco did not speak, nor, I believe, understand Eng- 

 lish; he was apparently between fifty and sixty and his face 

 reminded me somewhat of Professor Edward D. Cope, 



On January 23, I walked downstream along the Rio DIria 

 until completely barred by a dense hedge of pinuela extend- 



