flat-roofed building? around an open square, and spread along J or 4 
streets leading to this. So m of these are for the police and the 
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government offices. A motion picture house had Just been finished, 
a school was under way, and a hospital was planned. I noted several 
small houses of bungalow type that appeared very comfortable. Captain 
London© has behind his house a. patio bordered by a brick wall where we 
sat under an open kiosk, comfortable in a cool breeze in spite of the 
heat of the sun. 
le remained here for a few 
rs and then drove 
southeast across a nearly level plain, with a high, sharp pointed hill 
known as La feta as the principal land mark. 
Beyond this we came to the great wells at Ipapure where there is 
a mall settlement and some cultivation. I was told that the Indians 
sometimes watered as high as 6000 to 8000 head of stock here in a day. 
on toward the Venezuelan boundary over a very bad trail 
that soon became sandy so that we abandoned the regular path and drove 
across country, being in fact in Venezuela for part of the time. Leav¬ 
ing the sand m crossed through the small settlements of Gojoro and 
Sanebo Grande where there were a few houses only, to Castilletes, and 
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then to Puerto Lopez, located where the Tucacaa lagoon joins the ocean. 
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there is a small shallow harbor here, partly protected, to which 
schooners come. This port had been closed recently to traffic by 
government order, I was bold because of complaints of smuggling from 
the Venezuelan author!tie s. 
Puerto Lopez in April, 1941 was a sad little place of 20 or j© 
houses located on a sandy plain without shade, elevated a few feet above 
