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Chiriqui Land Company 
Almirante, Bocas del Toro 
Panama. - February 10, 195 ( ' 
Mr . Lo- is© Pearson 
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Dear Iks. Pearson 
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For the past four weeks we have been located/it Alairente, the 
headquarters for the United Fruit Company operations on the Caribbean 
side of western Pans du ’lie work is going forn..rd|weIl and with good 
ioo«ss« Actudly, we are living here with k I esft comforts* unusual 
n the field in Pansead* n 1 .no 1 Installed us in a 
.-keeping apartment with ell modern facilities wyl access to the 
commissary stocking American food. Bain is heavy/fed the jungles are 
as wet as any I hare ever worked. But numerous fypak§ ef birds are 
found orly 3 n this part of Parians and will repsyftbA "trouble ?ith the 
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Dr. 0 . A- dingier, e/o Chiriqui Lord Co pany,,j A|mirante* 
del Toro, Pan mi* who is head of the he op it a i stdlff Satire, lv x 
■ f kind to us. He is a ; • in- 
pertain to Pansmd* I will appreciate it very 
much if a copy of Vs. Espinosa’s 0 'ompendiUD. ; of .ibe Indies may 
. to him, preferably the Spanish edition if that, is still available. 
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eratijc»s of banana 
plantations» The improvements in handling are • • retarkable. I 
j exnelle t ■ stead 1 ere are 
x more easily available in it© foodstores in he ■■-ten then they are 
here since practically all that comes down to this port $re very promptly 
shipped nor the thousands of bunches* 
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Daily temperatures range from J(P to the morning to 85' or so in the 
afternoon. Our house is near the shore of AimIrani* '•"7 and ort of ny 
collecting is done by travel with an outboard driven dugOut canoe. We 
expect to be her© until the beginning of March. 
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1 th best regards from both of us, 
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Sincerely yours, 
. A. bstmore 
Research Associate 
