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took pictures and collected a bit. Then we all drove back 

 to the city and visited the Conservatorio de las Bellas Artes, 

 housed in a fine new white building. There was a gallery of 

 paintings on the main floor. In the archaeology room we met 

 3 rs Ford, who we again saw in Washington at the Stirling's. 

 She and her husband had been collecting up and down the .Cauca 

 valley. In the sculpture studio there was a completed and 

 well executed head, upstairs was the music department; there 

 were small rooms for lessons or rehearsals, each named for a 

 famous composer, n Bach% n Chopin n , etc*, and a n Debussy n room 

 with a fine radio-phonograph, large cabinets of records and 

 file of information. Free public concerts are given each week. 

 The auditorium was not yet finished. There was a large rehear- 

 sal room on the third floor. 



From the conservatory we drove and walked to the statue of 

 Belalc&zar, from which we had a fine view of the city # Then 



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View of Caii from the Belalc&sar statue 



to the acueducto, smaller than the one in Bogoti but apparent- 

 ly sufficient for the present population of the city. We saw 

 the whole process of pruification of the water, which takes 

 place in the midst of flower gardens. Don Luis next suggest- 

 ed lemonades at the San Fernando club. He had a table by the 

 pool. On the way back to the hotel we stopped in the city to 

 see the church of San Francisco, more than three hundred years 

 old and quite different from most of the other Colombian 

 churches because of its distinctive Boorish architecture. It 

 was on one side of a biasing hot plasa, in the center of 

 which stood a statue to Padre Bscobar , one of the characters 

 in the story tt SL Alf&rez Real. Murillo introduced 



