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of vegetables. Japanese persimmons were weighing down the branches 
of several big trees near the gate, and Dorothy and I each ate some. 
Cows, horses, chickens, pigs and ducks and geese added to tue i arm- 
yard scene. The Duffys are middle-aged, dark, rigorous, Irish (of 
course )t and delightful pioneers# 
B.A. and the City Hotel, we found Mr. Copley 
and me <u t to tea. We went to the home 
sort of Monday salon 
Returning to ■ — — 
waiting to take Prances and me ait to tea. »\e 
of Mrs. Siecherich, a wealthy old lady who has a _ - 
Because of its being Labor Day, and all chaufeurs on holiday, we 
were the only callers. She is a widow, lame, full of gossip, 
with a beautiful big old-fashioned house full of handsome things. 
Strangely enough, Prances su&fc found that she knows her sister m 
Norfolk, and she and Mrs. S. had a grand talk about the south. 
Copley took us all to Nuevo Americano for dinner (560 Sui pacha) 
where we gorged on roast lamb and sausages. 
May 2 - B. A . 
Bill and I called at the Smbas sy in the morning, meeting Mr. 
Tuck, who was very friendly. At noon we went to the Consulates! d 
picked up Mr. Davis, and we all took the subway out to the Zoo. 
We had understood that Dr. Holmbarg had invited us to lunch 
at the Zoo, but apparently there was some misunderstanding, for the 
Director was not to be f ound . However , we had an excellent lu .. 
in the Zoo restaurant, and eventually Holraberg turned up, and had 
a brief visit with us. 
In the late afternoon Mr. Casares, president of the Ornitho- 
logical Society, and Mr. Pi card o, of the nutria farm, came to tea. 
Casares talks very good English, and is a charming personj 1 ® , 
hobby , besides birds, is collecting first editions of A .H. Hudson. 
The Brownes had invited all five of us to dinner, and 
we went out to their apartment at 8.30, and ate chicken Mary lan 
and chocolate ice cream. Dorothy got out her pictures of Sumatra 
after dinner, and we had a grand evening. 
May 3 - B.A. 
We had been warned that any excursion into the cantry here 
began at an e arly hour, and sure enough, when we were invited 
out for the day, we had to be ready to leave the hotel at 6.30. 
It was just beginning to be light, and, as we had anticipated, our 
friends were a quarter of an hour late, and they had not had break- 
fast, so we had to stop in the Portales and get coffee. Bill and 
Prances rode with Mr. Antelo, Bill, Mr. Copley and I with Mr. Picardo . 
Por an h<n r we jiggled over cobblestones getting out of the city; 
then we had about an hour on fairly go od road, then an hour on 
dust - literally, the road was simply a bank of dust two or three 
feet deep. We skidded badly once turning a corner. And the clouds 
that were plowed up by the wheels of the car were blinding and. 
suffocating. When we passed anyone on the road, the dust would be 
