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Albrook Air Force base 
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January 19, 1949 
' We received your letter in which! you announced your date 
departure and will be looking forward to your arrival. 
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Since we last wrote, we have engaged in a lot of activity. 
We drove uj the Atlantic Coast from Colon to Rio Salud, which is 
the end of the road, making archeological inquiries. We got 
considerable information although we saw no actual sites. Ap¬ 
parently the antiguos shunned the coast itself for the most part 
and lived farther up the rivers. 
We made a similar excursion from Panama to Chepo and followed 
this with a helicopter flight over Darien and in particular the 
Rio Tigre. General Hale gave us two helicopters which are wonder¬ 
ful for this type of exploration. Their ability to stand still 
in the air or to fly slowly at low altitudes enables one even to 
see potsherds on the surface of the ground. Of course, their 
ability to land in a very limited space makes it possible to descend 
within a reasonable distance of almost any spot selected. 
We located what- appear to be a couple of burial sites on the 
Rio Utive, a tributary of the Iacora, and are leaving to work 
there (near the village of Utive) for a period of from one to two 
weeks, depending on whether or not the site pans out. We will not 
be far from Iacora and the La Jagua hunt club, 
this trip early tomorrow morning. 
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e are leaving for 
Yesterday we made a very interesting trip U] the Chagres river 
with Dr. Clark and Dr. Trapedo. We visited the Gorges Field Station 
and went to see a site not far from there where a gold eagle was 
discovered a few years ago. Dr. Clark assured us that the La Jagua 
hunt club is looking forward to your arrival and says there is no 
reason you should"not begin work there at once. Dr. Clark says he 
does not think there will be much duck hunting going on, and there 
would probably be no more visitors to the club at this period than 
there would be later. 
We have made arrangements to hire the Administration building 
of the Boy Scout Camp near Barriles beginning Saturday, February 26. 
We are assured that there will be no Boy Scouts there during this 
period. 1 They say it has 5 bedrooms and a large living room with 
fireplace, as well as an equipped kitchen, so there will be plenty 
of room for all of us. Some other party has the Administration 
building hired until February 26, so it would probably work out 
best for all hands if you went to Pacora early as you originally 
intended. j 
