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inoculated against rabies the day before. 



Dona Ines has been in Bogota only a year or so; her 

 father came from Spain in 1937; she was in Rome and came 

 later. One of her sisters teaches Spanish at Wheaton and 

 another is in the I'useura of Modern Art in New York. 



After lunch Sehor Osorno called at the apartment to 

 take us to see his beehives. He lives in an old house 

 near Carrera 3 a and Galle 16 or 17. It is ochre colored 

 and is in the old style, with the door opening directly 

 on the street. We entered first a short unlighted passage, 

 which led to another door. Beyond that was a flowered 

 patio on our right, with overhangs on all four sides, then 

 another short passage leading to a second patio, this time 

 on our left, with large pots of plants, and on the .near 

 side there was a small pipe standing two feet above the 

 floor and ending in a faucet which was very slowly filling 

 an old tin pail. Another corridor connected this patio with 

 another, somewhat larger and paved with square stones . Here 

 to our right was a high stone tub with a woman washing; she 

 paid no attention to us. There were many small rectangular 

 beds built up with old bricks set on edge; they were mostly 

 grassed over, with small trees and shrubs, and bordered v/ith 

 privet hedge. (See picture of Osorno on page 20) . There 

 was an Abutilon with yellow flowers, a very large privet, 

 a smaller privet with variegated leaves and a large bush of 

 huge yellow roses. There were several cages of birds, one 



Alicia, Maria Teresa, Isabel, the Chapins, Isabelita, Osorno. 



