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now started. At the university was Dr. Fidel Zelada, said to be 
the local authority on cacti, who had a collection of living plants 
at his home which he cordially ee me to see and I agreed to 
do this in the afternoon. The person for whom we had bee: 
looking not being at the a i: ee with the inacemadice 
that I would meet Mr. Schreiter at the museum in the afternoon, 
already been told as much about the cactus region as he himself 
ge it would be unnecessary for me to see him 
would be necessary, in order to get into te above men- 
a, cactus region, to to organize a caravan and as several weeks’ 
time would be required to accomplish anything, I felt that I had 
better not pve it 
As it had been raining continually for several days with no 
nee prospect of its stopping, I boarded the train the next 
valley, has very wide streets, most of them provided wit 
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the city to protect it from inundation by the torrential flow of 
water when there are heavy rains in the nearby hills. Owing to 
an accident on the railroad due to the locomotive leaving the 
track, we were held up for something like six hours and did not 
all nist apes Cand cubsraucntly ae to be very con- 
Messrs. Haustein and Schaaf, 
