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office of the Intendente of the city, -where Bullock had 

 some business, then to a hardware store. While I was 

 looking around I saw a short Collins cutlass which I 

 bought for 100 pesos (3.00 US). We drove to the Plaza 

 where we waited for another of the Vergel missionaries. 

 This was Houser from So. Dakota, in whose house we 

 are going to stay. Mrs Houser is an Oberlin graduate 

 and they have had two children there. The son graduated 

 in 19hl. Lunch was ready for us and it was much like a 

 North American dinner. 



In the afternoon we wandered about over the farm. I 

 was impressed by the fact that there they had a climate 

 that was suitable for both the citrous fruits and apples, 

 pears and peaches. We were shown through Bullock 's small 

 museum. For some years Bullock has been collecting the 

 heavy doughnut-shaped stones that were used by the Arau- 

 canians as warclub heads and he now has a very large col- 

 lection (about 500 of various sizes). He has also found 

 a precolumbian cemetary where the burials were in urns. 

 Three of these urns have been dug up intact; they are 

 about four feet high and perhaps 3o inches in diameter. 

 We had dinner with the Bullocks at about seven; after 

 dinner we talked mostly about the war and the extent of 

 the Nazi penetration in Chile. 



Mar. 10. A very good breakfast at 8.00. Bullock called 

 for us about 10.30 and with a laborer, we visited an e- 

 mormous stump that was completely overgrown with black- 

 berry bushes. The laborer cleared the stump and chopped 

 into it in several places but we found no termites. 

 Mar Houser was attending a Rotary Club lunch in Angol so 

 we had our lunch with Mrs Houser. In the afternoon, 

 Bullock turned me over to a small boy of 12 years. Jos6 

 proved to be a good collector, as well as an agreeable 

 companion. Bullock told a good story about Jos£ - A 

 new overseer told him to take a hoe up to the barn and 

 then called after him "Do you know where it belongs?" 

 Jos6 replied with scorn, "I've been here for seven years 

 and you have just come!" Returned to the house at U.00 

 to put away the catch and pack. We leave Angol tomorrow- 

 morning on the $.00 for Concepci6n. Dinner with the Hou- 

 sers and after dinner Bullock came over with some leps 

 and dragonflies for me and some flies for Raul. Later 

 the Housers, Raul and I played Chinese checkers under a 

 new (to me) set of rules. Bed at 11.30. 



Mar. 11. Up at 6.1£, breakfast at 7.00, started for An- 

 gol at 7.35 and pulled out of the station on the train 

 for Concepci6n at 8. 13. At the last minute I gave Mrs 

 Houser a hundred pesos for social work (enough to buy a 

 good pig for some worthwhile boy to raise) . 



