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where we found several small crawfish (Aegla sp.) and 

 many specimens of a snail crawling on the rocks. I 

 exposed the last two films in the pack and turned it 

 in for development and prints. After lunch at the hotel 

 Raul lay down for a nap while I read, or tried to read, 

 a "whodunit" in Spanish. At 5> we went down to the din- 

 ing room for onces and then to a hill at the back of the 



Railroad station at Puerto Varas. 



town which had been converted into a religious park. We 

 found the collecting good and took one or more species 

 of Scarabaeidae, Lucanidae, Carabidae, Nitidulidae and 

 Scolytidae. At dark we quit and returned to the hotel 

 for dinner. There was a fiesta in costume at the hotel 

 and we both decided to go to bed immediately. I read 

 Kim for awhile. RatSl had started Kim and before he had 

 finished a page, threw the book aside with the remark 

 that he didn't like it. I could get no explanation as 

 to why. Later I found out the reason - Raul is exceed- 

 ingly sensitive about the dark color of his skin and 

 the opening description of Kim reads "though burned 

 black as any native". That was too much for him. He 

 finally gave me the book to keep with the dedication 

 "Here is a book that Lalo adores and that I am not able 

 to read." "Don Lalo" was his name for me, derived from 

 the nickname of his own brother Eduardo. 



Feb. 25. This day was Sunday and I started Raul off 

 for eight o'clock mass. I got up leisurely and at 8.1»0 

 went alone to breakfast. We were going to Ensenada by 

 the nine o'clock boat and Raul didnt get back to the 

 hotel until 8.£o. I ordered coffee for him and thanks 

 to the fact that the boat was twenty minutes late, we 



