Drawer 0 
Balboa? C.Z* 
February IS? 
Mr. Richard H. Stewart 
Staff Photographer 
Hational Geographic Society 
Washington 6 S D.O. 
Dear Diekt 
I arrived here from Curacao Tuesday waning and found it sy mil yourc 
of January 18 and the contact prints from my first nine rolls of film* You . 
were vary kind to write a© and to sand these to a© for examination* The rest 
of my fils from the Venezuelan expedition goes to you by airmail under sepa¬ 
rate cover. I kept the rolls packed in icabags with silica gel end have don© 
lay best to keep them dehydrated under some very adverse, Jungle conditions. 
I was back in the interior in southern Venezuela for nearly six weeks? 
living under open canvass and sleeping in a hammock without benefit of tents 
or other shelters# Although it was dry season? it rained terrifically nearly, 
every night# In consequence shoes and many other thin,' abided unless laid 
out regularly in the sum* I hope therefor® that the film ts in good shape. 
yaK*' 
We went back up thenrives , cutting out logs, etc. and cam© finally to the 
base of a mountain that has been unknown and that is not Shown on any map. 
I got a nice lot of birds and came out very happy over the expedition- W® ran, 
short of food? there were no Indians in the country and when we did com© to 
small settlements there was nothing to buy* We had no o r troubles. 
We have Just seen Mrs. Bents who spoke particularly of you. Zetek has been 
ill and is in Ecuador with his daughter. He is expected to return March 17 
Vie hope to get out of town Monday, February 22 and are going to Chlriqul. 
I have arranged to use one of Pablo Bracknoy* s houses at Palo Santo as a base 
for collecting. 
With my best regards^© all? 1 am? 
Sincerely yours? 
A. Wetmoro 
