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certain time so that there is no standing . We went to bed 

 about 10 after a mediocre dinner • 



f Feb. 18 . Up at 8.30 after a good night's sleep. We were 

 now in the grape country and many vineyards could be seen 

 from the train. As we approached the city of Osorno we 

 had our first sight of the Osorno volcano, the most sym- 

 metrical of all of Chile's snow-capped peaks. From here 

 on, one or more snow-caps were always in sight. As the 

 train sped on between Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt we had 

 our first close view of a lake, Lago LLanquihue. Reached 

 Pto. Montt a few minutes ahead of schedule and went across 

 the street to the Hotel Miramar. We took a large double 

 room without private bath but not too far from the large 

 bathroom that served that end of the floor. We washed and 

 walked to the Plaza de Armas where we found a clean German 

 tearoom, Caf6 Olimpia, which served excellent H onces tf . 

 After eating, we strolled about town ending up at the fish 

 wharves. Two or three small fishing boats were in and the 

 fishermen were selling beautiful 20" mackerel at two for 

 five pesos (.16). In the shops nearby were strings of 

 dried mussels and dried shrimps, dirty and most unattrac- 

 tive. Back to the hotel to write a letter home before 

 dinner, which was served at 8. 30 and was quite good. 

 Bed about ten. 



3 eb. 19. Another good night and up at eight. First we 

 made our reservations on the boat leaving Pto. Montt for 

 Castro (Chilo6 I.) tomorrow night at 10. Our boat will be 

 the SS Chacao, 2f>8 tons nett vriiich seems small. Then to 

 the postoffice to mail letter. Back to the hotel for our 

 nets and bottles and up onto the hills back of the town 

 where we found fair collecting. Took my first Chilean 

 r carabaeid, Pinotus torulosus , as well as some weevils and 

 odonata. Dinner at the hotel at noon. After dinner we 

 started out in another direction but found the collecting 

 very poor, everywhere it was too dry. We gave up at about 

 5 and went back to the Olimpia for onces. Then a turn 

 around town, another visit to the fish wharves (no new 

 kinds of fish to be seen) and back to the hotel to write 

 cards to Willis, Parfinowich, Schmaltz, Sweet and Carpen- 

 ter. Dinner at 8.30 and bed shortly afterward. 



Feb. 20. After breakfast we went northeast from the hotel 

 and found a much better collecting place. It was high up 

 on a side hill, with bog conditions. We collected all the 

 morning and, with time out for lunch at the hotel, all the 

 afternoon. On our way bach to the hotel in the afternoon, 

 we were stopped by a man who told us that we were on the 

 property of the city water supply and we definitely should 



