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walked around the Plaza de Berrio and into a very old 

 stone church beyond. It had round brick columns topped 

 by stone capitals carved in elaborate flower forms, 

 (lotus and scroll ?) which supported large intercolura- 

 nar arches, also of brick but not so faded. There was 

 a large lighted group of colored statues over the altar, 

 which was decorated with calla lilies, Many people were 

 in the 

 church, 

 sitting 

 or kneel- 

 ing. 



I man- 

 aged to 

 eat some 

 dinner 

 with Cla- 

 ra and we 

 went to 

 bed imme- 

 diately. 

 Ho sooner 

 were we 

 undressed 

 than the 



telephone Gallego, kurillo, Cabal, Otoya 



rang . It 



was Cenora de Gonzalez in the lobby, We dressed as rapid- 

 ly as possible and went down to meet her and her sister. 

 It was a brief but very pleasant call. She had called 

 at the hotel in the morning, leaving her card and a note 

 inviting Clara to drive around the city in the afternoon. 



liar. a. After breakfast we collected our bags and were 

 taken for a drive around Fedellin and its environs. First 

 to the Facultad so that Clara could see where we had been 

 working • In the distance behind was the lecherla, a model 

 dairy farm; in the foreground two large concrete tanks 

 with tropical waterlilies. The drive leading to the main 

 entrance is lined with Royal palms. 



In a narrow road near the Facultad we met a bus loaded 

 with students. It stopped and out of it climbed Dr Emilio 

 Robledo, to whom we were introduced. Then we went to 

 Buenos Aires hill, where we had a fine view of the city 

 and the mountains . 



Our drive lay along the hillsides, past many fine es- 

 tates up and down the slope, all with much land, many 

 trees and bright flowers, some in boxes on the houses. 

 At Envigado, a suburb far enough from -edellin and im- 

 portant enough to have its own retens, we stooDed at a 



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