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the low remains of the old chapel destroyed by earthquake. I sat on a ledge and prepared to take Monserrate church as seen among the trees with the mountains beyond; just as I was ready the clouds rolled up suddenly in thick fog from the west and completely hid the church and then Guadalupe.
     That night at dinner there was a guest who had lived several years in the State of Washington.

Mar. 1. At 11, we bought some flowers and went to call on the Butlers. They had some very nice watercolors by a Bogotá artist named Wiesner. We took some pictures, those taken indoors did not come out at all well. When we left they walked with us to the Hernández de Alba's. Señor Buenaventura from Cali was there, also his son; he invited us to call when in Cali. 
   In the de Alba living room are miniatures of early bogotanos, a painting of the madonna in the clouds by Acevedo Bernal, chairs with dark leather backs cut and painted in figures, coats of arms, etc. In the dining room opposite Clara was a long shelf of polished silver. Luncheon was fruit cup, soup, beet-carrot-etc salad with fish loaf, potato chips with fried chicken, fruity steamed pudding. The discussion at the table was mostly- Los Estados Unidos ganarán, no ganarán. Coffee or yerba buena was served in the living room.
    After lunch we all drove to the cathedral in two cars. At the left of the nave is a shrine with a Van Dyck painting. The center rotunda has high murals of the four evangelists by the four best Colombian painters of the early twentieth century (Acevedo Bernal was one). The cathedral was built in 1823 on the site of the original church. Beyond the rotunda is a chapel set off by a wrought iron rail; it was opened and lighted for us to see; the whole wide front of the altar is faced with silver repoussé, angels, flowers, etc; a narrower upper part behind is also silver repoussé.
     Through a door at the right we went into the sacristy; there were carved dark wood lockers for canons' vestments; carved marble fountains, very old, but with faucets and soap dispenser; a large chest of very wide, very shallow drawers of altar cloths - brocades, embroidered velvets, etc; large paintings of early archbishops. We saw the standard of Jiménez de Quesada, and the cross carried at the first Mass in Bogotá.
     A chapel at the right of the nave has a large painting of St. Elizabeth of Hungary; also a monument to Nariño, (Doña Paulina is descended from Nariño's sister); the sarcophagus of Jinénez de Quesada, 1938, with a large recum-bent figure in marble on top. A square tall wood structure, 
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