came in. While at the University of Kansas, Kr McKibben 

 went around especially with the Mexican students and he 

 roomed with a Mexican while at Harvard Law School $ then he 

 spent sixteen years in Mexico and Colombia. Dona Silvia 

 says he has no accent at all. His conversation was very 

 interesting. 



Feb. 28. fe both went to the Institute in the morning to 

 arrange the plans for the Medellfn trip. Each of us may 

 take iiQ pounds of baggage. 



After lunch we went up Konserrate with Silvia. We walked 

 to the funicular cable railroad station which is at the low- 

 er end of the Boqueron. The grade varies from l\0 Q to 80% 

 with an average of 70 Q ; the altitude of the lower station 

 is 2695 meters , that of the upper yi$2 meters. First class 

 passengers sat in front facing downward, well closed in by 

 breast-high wooden sliding doors. It took seven and a half 

 minutes to make the ascent and we could see the cable pulleys 

 still spinning after we passed. From the upper station there 

 are two paths to the church, one direct that is quite steep 

 and the other that -winds around the hill — a via crueis ; 

 along it were fourteen large stone and cement platforms shoul- 

 der high, with bronze groups half to two-thirds life size; 

 each platform had a long row of candle holders in front, and 

 pink geraniums growing at the edge; most had withered blossoms 

 placed on or around the figures . 



The church has large outside pillars of old brick, the 

 space between overlaid with concrete; it has one large spire 

 and many small ones along the roof. Inside, it is rectangu- 

 lar, with no transepts; the ceiling is groined and the walls 

 are decorated with trefoils and quatref oils . The floors are 

 black and white, the steps behind the altar are marble. The 

 altar is gilded, high and square, with a wide shallow shelf 

 in front covered with a white linen cloth. At the sides and 

 slightly behind, are 3 an Jos6 and 3 an Antonio with nifio, life 

 size or more. Above and behind the altar, visible throughout 

 the church, is a rectangular glass case with a life size fig- 

 ure of Christ dying, on one elbow on the ground, the skin 

 brown, much blood stain, a piece of purple velvet thrown a- 

 cross the middle of the body and with two elaborately carved 

 thorns sticking into the head. A family was going up the 

 marble steps on knees ♦ 



We followed the path along the hill to a lookout; from 

 there we could see the Biblioteca, the Teatro Colon, Avenida 

 Jimenez de Quesada, Plaza de Santander, Plaza de Bolivar, Rio 

 Bogota, Ciudad Universitaria, La Pena, and a roof in a big 

 square of tree-tops which was the Quinta; to the east were 

 other mountains, with cloud and sun and shadows; to the south 

 across the Boqueron was Guadalupe with two buildings visible, 

 one a small chapel much simpler than ; onserrate, the other 



