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May 23 - B.A. 
We awoke this morning to find the first rainthat we have 
seen falling lazily over B.A. As we had been invited to an asado 
at the Zoo we rather expected a telephone call during the morning 
to tell us that the picnic had been called off. Failing to 
hear from Dr. Holmberg, we went out to the Zoo at one o’clock, 
and eventually the other guests, and even our host, showed up. 
Both Botana's sons were rresent, the ,.»ne called Beans whom we met 
the other day, and another one who speaks very g od British, having 
been to the school of journalism at thellniversi ty of Missouri. 
The asa^o ”-s ’reprred outdoors, in spite of the rain! Back 
of the restaurant is a vine-covered arbor, and there a huge fire, 
or rather of series of fires were glowing, each -ne surrounded by 
carcases. The first course was chincilines (braided intestines of 
cow ) and other delicacies, such as kidneys anu thyroid glands, 
with sausages. Then came a whole roast kid, then a haunch of beef, 
then half a lamb, then several roast chickens, bread and butter 
and lettuce salad, coffee and fruit completed the meal; certainly 
the Argentines are great meat e ters. This really was deL icious, 
however, for the various meats, being roasted on spits over a 
charcoal f ire , had a wonderf ul flavor. 
We had asked Dr. and Mrs. Henry to have dinner with us. We 
unf ortunat e ly had little appetite, but we all wentover to Maxim’s 
and enjoyed the evening. 
May 24 - B.A . 
Bill went shopping for birds with Dr. Saporiti of the Zoo, 
z young man who knows the value of animals. Bill came back very 
much cheered, having found lots of flamingoes, black-necked swans 
and other things he wanted, at rea© nable prices. Saporiti had lunc 
with us at the hotel. 
In the evening Dr. Henry took us to the Farmyard Bar on 
Tucuman, a typically German place, with a .loud brass band and a 
small dance floor. We had good beefsteak, and the band was please 
to play any selection we asked for, notably"Tii nk Trink" and "Denn 
muss du in Rhineland geboren sein. " Later we went to the Joub- 
ten Hotel, where we fell in with a crowd of Irishmen - two of them 
being delegates to the Postal G ngrees, oneof them a famous doctor 
in B.A. Bill said to theman who came from Dublin that the Dub- 
lin Museum was the worst-Habeled in the world, and the man took it 
as a personal insult, and branched forth into a long explanation 
of how poor Ireland was, how much more interested in the present 
thao in t he past , etc. - all because we had been interested in 
the exhibit last summer and wanted to know more about it. 
After all the German music we asked for some Irish airs 
from the orchestra, which was very obliging. Then I suggested tha 
they play "The Sidealks of Hew York." They didn’t seem to know 
it, and Bill hummed it for them - whereupon they broke out into 
"Daisy, $aisy, give me your answer true." 
