February 7* 1955 
Dr*.wB 
e/c. Gorges Memorial laboratory 
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Ililc trip has gone off time far according to sehedtal©* be tmm across 
to El Vol i in two’ days* stopping overnight i Send* The second day 1 was 
slowed down a bit by a leak in the radiator* hut had it repaired at the 
garage ter® in Hat© bo that the jc?ep is working now as well as over- In 
Sard I learned that Gabriel Jurado has had a concession for timber on Ooiha 
but that for mm& reason he ie not working at preeent* Hi had Ms isscill 
set up at Puerto Vidal and ’tewed the logs over on balsa-wood floats. 1 am 
quite sure that there is lotatoh transportation available at this end* How¬ 
ever* after' looking things over* it appears to me best to hold any plane 
©onceming the work on Colba until nmt year* We are well organised her® 
at present and 1 m lined up for a good season's work* If 1 try to arrange 
be other trip a»i it could well end up that I would net get r 
either end* As it is* we hair® a good start on sot o c t the high mountain 
aid I am learning my wey around sufficiently so that I expect 
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y to present plan* we will leave here about 
further over toward Cost a Rise,* to be gone from 
want to get a collection ae near the frontier no 
'onday, February 
ton days to two 
possible. 
Dry season ie is full 
mm$ sad we are having beautiful weather 
Please give Dr* Galindo ty thanks 
\rds to all of you* in which Bee joins* 
f:m 
trouble* and with re- 
Sineerely yours* 
A. Meteor® 
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broke a little gadget on the typewriter that controls the spacing handle 
and unfortunately there is no typewriter repair service in El Volcdnl 
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