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first experience in combining avocado with hot soup. It is 

 a very tasty combination. After lunch we ?^ent down' and down 

 into the valley of the Rio Siinuba. At the bridge we found 

 good collecting. One small shrub was alive with a species 

 of Stenus. Ve took the car across the bridge, which was 



under construction, 

 and climbed the oth- 

 er side of the val- 

 ley to Quay at 4. Eo 

 collecting but we 

 went into the church 

 and met the padre. 

 Ee invited us up to 

 his living quarters 

 for coffee. As we 

 were going through 

 the church I heard 

 him ask Murillo if 

 I was a catholic. 

 Murlllo said "Uo, 

 but he is very relig- 

 ous . n Later when I 

 refused beer he told 

 the padre that I was 

 a total abstainer! 

 un the way back we stopped at the Agricultural experiment Sta- 

 tion of BoyacJ. where we collected on the marginal land. Some 

 coccinellids and other good thinks. We started for Bogotd 

 about U and arrived at 9, very tired. 



Clara spent the day around Bogota. She did some more last 

 minute shopping and tried to see the Vasques paintings in I£L 

 Sagrario but couldn't get in. Instead she went to San Diego, 

 one of the most attractive churches in the city. It is white- 

 washed inside and out, with a large heavily gilded altar at 

 the left and some very old paintings at the back. A priest 

 was talking to a group of mothers about the bringing up of 

 children and their first communion} there were some funny 

 touches, some good sense and some histrionics. From there 

 she called on Mrs Carroll, Carrera 11A, W 69-38. She got 

 off the car at Calle 67, so had to walk around three sides of 

 the big enclosed square, only to find that Krs Carroll was 

 not at home. 



At six, a cable was delivered at the apartment. It was 

 from Wetmore telling of a changed plane schedule. Avianca 

 office was closed so nothing could be done that night . 



Telephone calls from Guillermo Hernandez de Alba to say 

 that dona Paulina had been ill and from Mrs McKibben that 

 she also had been ill, but would like to take Clara to see 

 some churches with old paintings tomorrow. 



