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cation with the outside world were cut 

 oft". This and minor legends give the 

 place the flavor of its romance. Here in 

 this ancient monastery hospitality was 

 generously dispensed by the owner to all 

 members of the party, to whom he loved 

 to show the beauties of the chapel. My 

 one night under its roof before the dawn 

 of the eventful day which was to make or 



the place that had been built many cen- 

 turies before ; but, as there was no chap- 

 lain present with the party until the day 

 of the eclipse, our people seemed to have 

 no use for it. The Sundays were usually 

 spent, after a week of hard work, in 

 roaming the fields, the result of such 

 expeditions being shown in many kodak 

 films. 



Spanish School 



break all our plans was most gratefully 

 appreciated. 



Senor Carbajosa placed his whole 

 plantation at our disposal, and as a part 

 of the buildings had once been turned 

 into a summer hotel, the isolation of our 

 station was not so marked as it would 

 have been but for the presence of its 

 visitors. 



There was also an ancient church on 



With all needed concessions granted 

 for use of the camp, the advance guard 

 of the party for No. 2 station reaches the 

 spot over a rather rough road from 

 Retera, a distance of 7 miles, in a coach 

 the movements of which were such an aid 

 to digestion as would give an appetite 

 even to one of the eclipse instruments. 



Then the equipage for the station next 

 came lumbering: along; behind carts 



