series of pictures as you requested. We expect to spend 
three days on the island. Zetek seemed very chaerful and 
fine fettle. t/ 
in 
at the 
He brought 
Education 
set of 
appears to 
aid, Marion 
As a result of having a car and chauffeur, vp mad£\*yaiek 
work of disposing of our expedition preliminaries. Hr. Mendez 
was delighted at our return and was grea11 y^p-l-dased 
special set of pictures that Dick made up for him. 
us around to pay courtesy calls on the Ministers of 
and G-obierno. As you know, there is a complete new 
cabinet officers now functioning. Mendez, however, 
be on the best of terms with all parties. With his 
and Hick also secured permanent drivers 1 licenses for Panama 
and we obtained a new letter of authorization for free passage 
of ourselves ana equipment en todos partes. 
General -aale also kindly volunteered to furnish us with 
all tools, medical supplies, and any other equipment that we 
might need. However, since we have almost.everything we need 
at Parita, we are accepting only a small medical kit and a 
couple of picks and shovels for prospecting work before we get 
there. He also offered to fly us to any sections where they 
have people working. 
Tonight, General Hale is bringing us with him to a cocktail 
party at the American Ambassador’s. The Ambassador, Mr. Davis, 
is as you may know an old friend of Lucy and Bill Mann. Follow¬ 
ing the cocktail party we are going to spend the evening with 
Hr. and Mrs. Randle. He is a medical officer at Albrook Field 
ana has recently returned from nine months duty on the Galapagos, 
where, he madeu a collection of reptiles whichJ he ,i,s going to send 
to Bill Mann as soon as plane space is available. We had enter¬ 
tained the Randles in Washington a few years ago and given them 
advice on a collecting trip thej' wanted to make in Mexico. 
On board ship we met Mr. Paul A. Bentz, General Counsel for 
the Panama Canal. It turned out that he is quite familiar with 
the Barriles region where we expect to work later. He gave us 
many interesting leads on the region. Saturday night, he has 
invited us to his house for dinner to meet some people who own 
a sawmill in the vicinity, and the Superintendent of Schools of 
the Zone, who maintains a boy scout camp in that area. They 
will be in a position to advise us as to the best means of es¬ 
tablishing a headquarters for our work. We also met a number 
of-other old time Zone residents and some Panamanians on board 
who gave us a number of very interesting leads on archeological 
sites. 
All .in all, things have started out with a bang and I only 
hope we can keep up the pace. 
We haven’t contacted Curtis as yet, since as you know he 
doesn't -have a phone. We are going to drive out to see him 
tomorrow at Gamboa and will get the latest information on the 
hunt club. 
General Hale is looking forward to your arrival, as are the 
rest of us. We will time our work at Barriles to correspond 
with your plans while here, since it makes no difference to*us 
which portion of our time is spent there. We wlll start for the 
field on our return from B.C. I will keep you informed, fy/f 
