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and coffee; cigarettes and cigars passed on tray with a 

 fat square candle a la chimney. We had been warned not to 

 try to sit down again in the living room after leaving the 

 table and were soon driven back the the Embassy by Braden's 

 chauffeur. 



As it was now too late 

 to go to the Institute, we 

 walked to Avenida Caracas 

 to call on Professor Rivet, 

 who had left a card for me 

 at the hotel. We rang a 

 bell at the street door, 

 and in the course of time 

 a head appeared at a third- 

 floor window. ri El Prof esor? ,? 

 ,! Sf P 1 said we. The street 

 door latch was released and 

 we climbed, met a maid and 

 left a card; B E1 Prof es or 

 no est&. n 



Back we went to Garrera 

 Octava. We watched the pop- 

 ulation of Bogota as it 

 moved about; many burros with 

 double packs, some with a 

 small boy riding almost over 

 the tail, others managed by 

 a woman walking alongside; 

 the load was usually two 

 cases of soda pop. The wo- 

 men wore men's round-crowned 

 black felt hats, black fringed 

 (sometimes embroidered) pailolones, longish black skirts and 

 alpargatas. The men wore ruanas, either black or a dark 

 striped mixture. Boys from well-to-do families wore dark 

 suits with loose knee pants . We rested awhile in our room, 

 then washed and walked to the Granada. IVith the Goodspeeds, 

 we took a taxi to the Butlers home at Galle 30, N s 16/U25>. 

 By the time we arrived, it was black and rainy. Mr and Mrs 

 Butler came out of the blackness with umbrellas to get us 

 in. After we had taken off our wraps they showed us the 

 house, new and spruce like most of the houses in Teusa- 

 quilla. Three bedrooms and a study upstairs . Living room 

 with fireplace and a fire burning, made of real wood and 

 not twigs as in the Granada; up one step and we were in a 

 second living room with a piano and books . Beyond the 

 large dining room was a service room with sink, refriger- 

 ator and china cupboard, then came the kitchen with a 

 large built-in coal range filling one whole side, with 



