the Xm remains of the old chapel destroyed by earthquake. 

 I sat on a ledge and nrenared to take lionserrate church 

 as seen among the trees with the mountains beyond; just 

 as I was ready the clouds rolled up suddenly in thick fog 

 from the west and completely hid the church and then Gua- 

 dalupe. 



That night at dinner there was a guest who had lived 

 several years in the State of Washington. 



Ivar. 1. At 11, we bought some flowers and went to call on 

 the Butlers. They had some very nice watercolors by a Bo- 

 gota artist named T/iesner. ITe took some pictures, those 

 taken indoors did not come out at all well. When we left 

 they walked with us to the Kern&ndez de Alba's. Sehor 

 Buenaventura from Cali was there, also his son; he invi- 

 ted us to call when in Cali. 



In the de Alba living room are miniatures of early bo- 

 gotanos, a painting of the madonna in the clouds by Acevedo 

 Bernal, chairs with dark leather backs cut and painted in 

 figures, coats of arms, etc. In the dining room opposite 

 Clara was a long shelf of polished silver. Luncheon was 

 fruit cup, soup, beet-car rot-etc salad with fish loaf, po- 

 tato chips with fried chicken, fruity steamed pudding. 

 The discussion at the table was mostly - Los Estados Unidos 

 ganaran, no ganaran. Coffee or yerba buena was served in 

 the living room. 



After lunch we all drove to the cathedral in two cars. 

 At the left of the nave is a shrine with a Van Dyck paint- 

 ing. The center rotunda has high murals of the four evan- 

 gelists by the four best Colombian painters of the early 

 twentieth century (Acevedo Bernal was one). The cathedral 

 was built in 1823 on the site of the original church. 

 Beyond the rotunda is a chapel set off by a wrought iron 

 rail; it was opened and lighted for us to see; the whole 

 wide front of the altar is faced with silver repouss6, 

 angels, flowers, etc; a narrower upper part behind is also 

 silver repousse. 



Through a door at the right we went into the sacristy; 

 there were carved dark wood lockers for canons' vestments; 

 carved marble fountains, very old, but with faucets and 

 soap dispenser; a large chest of very -wide, very shallow 

 drawers of altar cloths - brocades, embroidered velvets, 

 etc; large paintings of early archbishops. We saw the 

 standard of Jimenez de Quesada, and the cross carried at 

 the first Kass in Bogoti. 



A chapel at the right of the nave has a large painting 

 of ot. .Elizabeth of Hungary; also a monument to rlaririo, 

 (Dona Paulina is descended from Nariho's sister); the sar- 

 cophagus of J±n6nez de Quesada, 1938, with a large recum- 

 bent figure in marble on top. A square tall wood structure, 



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