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rough air. At the Talara airport I found some ascalaphids. 

 Chiclayo airport is a desolate place in the desert; there 

 were no insects or other life around the field. We reached 

 limatambo airport, the field that serves Lima only a few 

 minutes late and were taken by bus to the Hotel Gran Bolivar 

 for the night. I changed ten dollars into 66 soles so that 

 I could pay my hotel bill and have a little extra. Instead 

 of trying the hotel dining room Iwalked around in the vicin- 

 ity of the plaaa major and found a pleasant looking restau- 

 rant. As I vrent in I met Varleta, who had already found an 

 old acquaintance from Argentina, a Dr Guzman. The three of 

 us had dinner together. 



Feb. 12. Up at 3 AM and, for a change, the plane left near- 

 ly on time. Our flying 

 had been largely over wa- 

 ter and quite smooth; 

 from Lima south xre were 

 over land more of the 

 time and the air was no- 

 ticeably rougher. It had been wars in Lima and when we came 

 to Arequipa I thought it looked quite hot. n n leaving the 

 plane we had a delightful surprise; Arequipa is at 8100 ft. 

 and the air is cool and criso. The landing field is placed 

 right at the foot of El tlisti, a beautiful snow-capped peak* 

 Arica and Antofagasta were more like Talara, hot and deso- 

 late. Between Antofagasta and Santiago there was no sched- 

 uled stop but we came down for gasoline at Vallenar, a new 

 and still uncompleted airport • Another -Diane, which left 



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Limatambo just after we did and which we caught sight of in 

 nearly every airport, was not as heavily loaded as we and 

 was able to fly straight through and so reached Santiago 

 a few minutes ahead of us. Nevertheless, we came in on time 

 and I found Raul Cortes, Carlos Murioz, Ramon Gutierrez, the 

 U. S. Vice Consul and others there to meet me. I went 

 through Customs easily and was loaded, with my baggage, into 

 a station wagon and taken to the City Hotel where I took 

 Room hP9. After disposing of my bags, Raul, Ramon and I 

 walked about the central part of Santiago until time for 

 dinner. Ramon excused himself and Raul and I had dinner 

 in the hotel dining room. 



Peb. 13. Raul came to the hotel at 9 to take me to the 

 American Embassy to call on Paul Guest, Agricultural Ad- 

 visor. I arranged with him to take care of my mail, etc. 

 Then I went to the office of the Cultural Relations Offi- 

 cer, who proved to be Phil Thayer; it was my first meeting 

 with him in thirtyfive years! YJe had a good talk, partly 

 about my work and partly about his doings since we lost 

 track of each other. Is J started to leave, he invited me 



