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April 25 - Montevideo 
.After two days at sea, we were late getting into Montevideo, 
and instead of reaching it in the morning, pulled in about eight 
in the evening. The Dawsons (he is now Minister here} had 
invitee us to lunch, but when we were so late we didn't know 
whether we would see them or not, so we had dinner on board at 
the usual time, and then were mortified to find that they had kept 
dinner waiting lor us. They took us and the Shippens off in their 
car, and sent us for a drive around the city and out to the beach 
while they ate their dinner. At night, one gets only the impression 
oi a brightly lighted, thoroughly modern city, and the miles of 
beaches, where the surf was pounding on the sand, were certainly 
tempting. The very new houses, arid elaborate hotels, give the 
place a Florida or California look. 
-Both the Dawsons are very fond of Montevideo, and we had a 
pleasant visit with them. I think that although it is a promotion 
for him to have been made Ambassador to Panama, they will hate to 
leave this place. 
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April 26 - Buenos Aires 
T /e sailed from Montevideo at nine in the morning, and spent 
all day long on La Plata, an ocean of mud, stretching from horizon 
to horizon. The day was cold, with a high wind, and the brown 
expanse of water was somehow infinitely dreary. Toward evening 
the setting sun turned it into a muddy purple. The river is so 
wide that no land is visible all day, and the general effect is 
of a seaman’s limbo - unreal and depressing. 
B. A. was ablaze with lights when we finally got in, and the 
skyline looked as skyscrapery as New York. Bill was interviewed 
by a dozen reporters, and Monnett Davis and Mr. Copley the Vice 
Consul, were both down to meet us. As soon as we could get ashore 
and through Customs, we went out to the Davises very lovely 
modern apartment, where we met, to our great surprise, Sidney and 
Dorothy Browne, formerly of Medan. It seemed like a real Mast Indian 
reunion, and we even got to talking Malay] Other guests were Dr. 
and Mrs. M. J. Henry, and as I had lost a filling out of a tooth 
we were pleased to find that he was an American dentist. Frances 
was sitting next to him at dinner, and lost a double crown in the 
soup, so we both knew we should be seeing him soon again.' Pearl 
has just had her appendix out, and this was her first evening up and 
dressed, but she looks well, and it was grand to see her again. 
Tom is at boarding school, so we did not see him. 
Shortly after midnight we came back to the City Hotel (16 
pesos for doable room and bath}, and went wearily to bed. Nothing 
exhausts one more than the last day on board ship, when you wander 
restlessly about, with all the packing done, and hating to give up 
the leisurely .Life and the many friends that you make during such 
long voyage. 
