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72 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Feb. 7, 1963 Thursday
Place Cali
Weather Fair, warm, hot.
The man who wanted to collect frogs for me beyond Buga on Sunday has backed out, as he heard that bandits beheaded 4 people there this week. And this is the mild little expedition of 2 old ladies seeking only the lower forms of animal life! Well I did not press the point, &  I certainly cant go myself. Dr. Kokernot brought me some antibiotic pills & a bottle of cough medicine containing codeine, so I hope there is a chance of my sleeping some to-night. Doris is about the same, but is very tired after her "3-day grippe".
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 73
Date Feb. 8, 1963 Friday
Place Cali
Weather Cloudy, then clear & hot
To-day I finished work at the university, and Bill Thornton helped me to pack 2 boxes of seeds & specimens for the USNM. A man came to the lab with a big live land turtle from Valledupar in Magdalena, for which he wanted 50 pesos. That was too much, Mariskelle & Thornton said, but the man would not sell for less, & went away. It was a beautiful turtle, with scarlet spots on its arms & legs, & the mouth yellow and red, & the neck skin a lovely rose color, but somehow I could scarcely imagine myself strolling into a luxury hotel with a turtle slung over my arm!
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