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ignore my plight by taking a walk out into the country, the course 
I took leading me to and past the cemetery. I soon discovered 
that I was in a real cactus region, for not less than five species 
were observed on this walk. Returning to the hotel in time for 
the noon day’s meal, my Swiss friend told me that he had met 
Dr. Schmidt es told him of my presence and intention in the 
egio he Doctor said he would be pleased to converse with 
ould. After the meal the hotel man, upon my request for a boy 
to show me the way out to Dr. Schmidt’s residence, advised me 
not to call on the Doctor until three o’clock, as he would probably 
be having his siesta, as is the custom he fe) e Doctor, 
o had been long in residence in Argentina, a very pleasant and 
highly scientific man of i He e much interested in 
verified the probable usefulness of Mr. Jorgensen in the work, knew 
that he was somewhere across the mountains in the province of 
Tucuman and said he could find out om his friends, adminis- 
trators of the sugar estate at Concepcion. 
useful information about the peu enes ecient and ae to 
send me a good peon to accompany me into the field. Early 
next morning Dr. Schmidt called on me at the hotel with a tele- 
gram from Concepcion stating that Mr. Jorgensen had left there 
way to Andalgala and that he expected to spend a fort- 
night collecting on his way across the mountains. The peon also 
showed up and said that he was ready to go to wor 
The inhabitants of Andalgala seem prosperous and content, 
The cultivation of the grape and the making of wine are their 
chief occupations. The place also has some local reputation for 
the production of quince preserves, put up in brick form, some- 
what resembling the well-known Cuban guava paste and jelly. 
ys, high Co) 
the village are practically all constructed - adobe, the village in 
reality being a huge irrigated vineyard. It boasts of an electric- 
light system which goes out at cee and a very primitive 
moving picture show every Sunday night. In the outskirts, on 
