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at the Embassy, however I got into hands of 
Consular offices & the letter I got was not 
addressed to the Minister at all. Went back 
there & found the minister gone, went down 
to naval headquarters, called Cabanillas who 
came over to see me, went up and saw 
Drouilhet. He said weather would be 
grand & that if we 
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June 11. ’42. At bath beach saw Pach 
Grap sifer(?) or Hemi- & one~ 
Petrolistres on floor, over in sand bet[ween] 
rocks on beach. One Panopeus, large 3 inches 
across carapace 
were to include radio sonde work we couldn’t 
do better from both Navy’s & Army’s point of 
view. 
Army man not in id’s [islands]. (Armstrong?) 
(See facing page. Put in here.) 
Cabanillas took me to the (1) Embassy & (2) 
Ecuadorian minister & then down to Eastman 
Mary Arosemenar 
shop where he had to return a camera. Then 
brought me back here / Write to 
at 4 p.m. 
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June 11. Since leaving Wash have not been 
discommoded by rain, except in Wash, where 
I first got damp & Miami where we were 
sprinkled, both when disembarking and when 
we boarded plane next morning, got wettest 
then in line, & people slowly filed thru plane 
door. Also got wet in night after dinner 
returning to hotel in Miami. As a result coat 
was a mess. Tropic-tex alright but 
its terrible dried looking stuff a 
dampening Serge (blue suit) never did that. 
Hang all these "fancy" civilized [continues on 
bottom of next page] 
Never realized how terrible Zeteks accident 
was, two surgical operations, & silver plate 
because bone was shattered so badly. 
Bet. 3 & 4 was home (Allens) cooling off. 
Cabanillas came by at 4 for swim & we met 
Mary Arosemenar whose car furnished 
transportation. Met Ecuadorian minister at 
bathing pool. Said everything passport 
was OK & that it was the only consent he’d 
given (to civilian). "Only time its been done. 
[from facing page] suitings that can only be 
dry cleaned same trouble with Palm Beach. 
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/ / /The black out after 1 1 p.m. is total, before 
that dim out, all lights must be shielded, no 
direct light to see thrown out of door or out of 
windows. Auto head lights first shielded, then 
painted red except for bottom strip & now are 
black painted except for little slot in middle. 
No end of autos on street. And the little pokey 
street cares which after 
all beat walking, have been discontinued, in 
C.Z. indeed tracks have been pulled up & 
place concreted over. Now the laborers seem 
to be hauled in trucks which means rubber as 
do little buses running everywhere. When 
rubber goes I guess theyJl put St. cars back; at 
least tracks in Panama side are still in place 
fortunately. 
Practice barrage balloons over air field. 
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