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took it out of it b cage, tossed it in the air, put it in his pocket, 
even let Frances and me hold it. -t Ibb itos been fixed* * s 
been a pet since babyhood. A tame jabiru wandered about the grounds. 
A monkey island is under construction, a huge one. she a si and is 
now a big plateau of earth in the center, ant is >o win 
rith concrete. A large moat surrounds the i sia.no. , andin this will 
be fish, even our favorite pejerrey. There is an attractive 
elephant house sddtexaRxiH&iaoi whose architecture suggests the Orient, 
and the bars are heavy cement, reinforced with iron, and shaped 
to suggest bamboo poles . 
There are 200, 000 visitors a year to the Park. The employes 
are paid 100 pesos a month, and are given two uniforms a year. 
About noon we left the Zoo, and were taken to a new park 
nearby, where one gets a superb panoramic view of the city. Jo.doba 
has 300,000 inhabitants, and 144 churches, and the towers 
top of the hill where we stood is largely of spires am cell towers. 
Mr. Martinez, representative of the government bureau of 
tourismo, drove us out into the country, through the ^ lat, austy 
grazing land that so far has seemed to us to represent Argentina, 
le had not gone far, however, when we began to approach the Cor 
hills, and we took a winding mountain road that led us around Lake 
San Roque, which, with the rather barren hills rising steeply fro. 
the blue water, reminded Bill and me at once of the approach to 
Prapat on Lake Toba. We went as far as the Men ch ^ t h 
where, somewhat to our consternation, we found we were' b ° ^ 
the 350 Postal Inspectors who are convening in Argentina this month. 
The lunch was good, and typical. First came slices of ® buff#d 
with vegetable salcld. Then tomato soup, lies " ' , 
vegetables, roast kid and salad , canned peacnes, coffee, and cham- 
pagne. 
We took a different route home, a real ^o^thf 
the Sierras at a height of 4,000 feet with breath-taking views ol the 
valley that stretched liraitlessly off to the horizo . 
Martinez took us to the Oriental for tea, a , 
restaurant with marble-topped tables, where the elite of Bather 
from five to seven to drink tea or coffee. Our crowd heartlessly 
went for whisky and gin, of course, and speaking of gin, tne ery 
of Bill Shippen's attempt to buy a bottle of it by the die y 
came out. He had asked Frances the Spani sh word for gin. 
looked It up and found "trampa". Bill went into a shop and 
ordered trampa, but got nowhere, the man flatly enying * * \he 
ever heard of such a thing. Bill could see bottles of gin on the 
shelf and finally got one by pointing. My Bill ^asking - 
that afternoon where he ever got that word for gin, a^ ail he had 
heard was "ginevra”, and Frances showed it to him in ^ dictionary 
Martinez was puzzled , also, and we finally look P . an 
Spani sh-Snglish section. It meant "trap" - which is gin in an 
entirely different sense J 
