El Volean, Chiriqui 
Rep. de Panama 
March 2, 1949 
D ear Mr. We tmor e: 
Your letter of February 16 was forwarded to us by 
Captain Snell and received here .February 26. 
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is nothing we can add to the information about 
our little shelter at Utive. Captain Snell visited us there 
and can give you specific directions about how to find the 
place, etc. Manual Martinez has lived : in the vicinity about 
long as any of the present inhabitants and might be a good 
as 
worker, 
but not as 
Old 
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workers' 
were Franci 
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'Bautista 
. W e .p a i d 
them 
$ 
yams and 
yucca, but 
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any kind 
. However, 
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man for you to contact. Vicente Gutierrez is also a good 
esident as Manuel. Our other 
rancisco (Garcia, Jacinto Cardenas and Hertimio 
.50 a day. You can get eggs and 
t don’t count on buying chickens or meat of 
g as you have your guns you can get 
plenty of conejo pintado and deer, etc. I don’t know whether 
or not the shelter will be close enough to the mountains for 
your purposes. Magdaleno Rodriguez was the man who went in 
with us. Alexander Smith hunted us up thru’ Aetek and told 
us about the place. Magdaleno had cut mahogany up in the 
mountains and built the present road with a tr&c tor three years 
ago. Magdaleno is a good fellow. Smith is garrulous and a 
nuisance and don't let yourself get tied up with him. I would 
not be surprised if he reads about your arrival in the papers 
and tries to contact you. v.e had to take on Magdaleno and 
Smith at $5.00 a day for the duration of our visit to Utive 
and don’t want to 
get stuck that way again 
We never did follow the road further up into to mountains 
but I imagine you could go quite a ways in your jeep, unless some 
trees have fallen to block the way. It might be worth investi¬ 
gating. 1erhap s you can get no farther than Utive because of 
crossing the river. 
Matt and I had discussed the possibility of repercussions 
on the '’Bone" book. It was a case of my failing to keep a 
i romise and refusing a favor asked - or getting the gringoes 
disliked generally, and I guess the latter i£ preferable. It 
was quite a spot at the time, as of coarse they would have no 
idea of why I would want to refuse to get it for them. Even by 
explaining that I didn’t think it was written in a symp&tica 
manera, it still didn't convey everything. 
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i'he mail goies out this morning and I will walk down now to 
send this so you will have - it when you arrive. 
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Give General Hale our best. I hope you express to him our 
thanks lor all the help and tell him w r e have written you about 
his many favors. If 
you see Ambassador Davis, tell him that \ 
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