3 soap box and with the others had everything ready for break- 
fast, which as usual consisted of boiled eggs and chocolate 
fi the little tienda. Of course, there was a hitch in 
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gathering the horses. Meantime, I made a sketch of the 
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Taree Bells thatched house by the church. I was off first 
from the green village and made a vancil sketch of the fresh 
lendscape freshened by yesterday's rains, looking over the | 
village toward the cloud-decked mountains. Then the others 
came along and we hurried away over the low hills and through 
: meadow and grand forest 25 miles to Las Playas. The journey 
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; was interesting all the way and I gazed at the forests, the 
4 great trees and vines, the bromillas and orchards and water 
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e furnishing plants, the tendrils of tree plants and ants! 
nests, etc. We got to Las Playas at noon and spent an hour 
there walking about the village photographing and saying 
goodbye. Then we were off two miles through the meadows 
to the lagoon, and here I am sitting on the sand looking 
down on the canoe which is to carry us to our launch 3 
