with a modern refrigerator and radio, curi'eat being generated by 
sind-charger propellers. Perhaps half of the Indians speak Spanish. 
Their wealth is mainly in stock - cattle, sheep, goats and burros. 
Women of good family are sold in marriage for 100 head of cattle. 
Their min food is com and meat, travel is safe, with due regard to 
the amenities of the country and the Indians are not difficult except 
when they are drinking. In the dry season the region is remarkably 
free fro® pests there being no fleas, few flies and ticks, and very few 
mosquitoes, except along coastal mangrove swamps. 
It may be noted that there are extensive areas in the central 
and western Quajira in which airplanes may land at will, with no 
preparation necessary to make landing fields. In some other sections 
it is required only to dear away the brush. At the present time 
the Avionca Company operates daily plane service from Barranquila to 
Cienega, lying between Santa Marta and Funaeion. There is a small new 
* 
airport here. In April, 1941 this service was continued at least 
* ' 
twice a wed to Valledup&r, south of the Sierra Sevada de Santa Marta. 
m airport was under construction at Eioh&eha at the same time, and 
there was a landing field for military use at Uribia. There are also 
that might be used as 
extensive level savannas,/natural airports, in the vicinity of 
Caracoli west of Valledupar. 
There is radio transmitting service at Uribia and at Bahia 
Honda in the Guajira. 
Alexander Wetmore, 
Assistant Secretary, 
Smithsonian Institution. 
