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north on Calle 22 and back on Garrera 36ptima. joors 

 opened directly on the street, and along Tercera many 

 were open; some led to the patio through a short ?:ide 

 passage, others to wretched rooms or to small dirty shops 

 tailors, hats, shoe repairs, bread, meat, or grocer- 

 ies . The houses were in a solid block with the fagades 

 forming a continuous wall but the roofs unequal in height. 

 A few were of brick, and a few of adobe but .many (especi- 

 ally in the older parts of the city) were of rammed earth 

 and all were stuccoed and painted buff, brick, pale blue, 

 pale pink, etc. We passed a house marked "National Band 

 of Bogota and heard the band playing the Star Spangled 

 Banner. On Septima (also called Calle Real and Avenida 



de la liepublica) the shops 

 looked more like ours; many 

 had show windows . The street 

 was full of automobiles 

 (mostly of the more expen- 

 sive models) , burros , and 

 open carriages , rusty black 

 with bright blue wheels . 



Back at the hotel we had 

 a call from John Butler; he 

 has been in Bogoti for five 

 years , some of the time for 

 the government, but new for 

 Texas Oil. Our three tall 

 orange juices helped to 

 light up the gloomy black 

 lounge, vve had dinner at 

 the Goodspeed's table; they 

 came by plane from San Fran- 

 cisco via Mexico, Guatemala 

 and Balboa and will go on to 

 Peru and Chile « 



Feb. 8. Orange juice in bed, 

 then I got up to take a walk 

 down the Avenida Jimenez de 

 John and Dorothea Butler Quesada to the Plaza de Na- 



rino, and back to bed. Clara 

 wrapped herself in coats and blankets and read to me fron 

 the Condesa de Char ny. There was a telephone call from 

 Don Luis inviting us to go with him to the Quinta de Bo- 

 livar but we declined. I got up again about seven, sat 

 in the lounge to watch its ten-minute twig fire, ate a 

 light dinner in the dining room and went back to bed. My 

 cold seemed much better . Ylien one has a cold in Bogota 

 it seems worse because of the chill in the air and in 

 all of the buildings . 



