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At 2 we started for the airport in the Avianca bus. Dr Alondano Herrera, the secretary of agriculture for the Departamento del Valle, was there to say Goodbye to us. The trip back to Bogota was very pleasant, much the best flight we had had; it was clear and cool and we landed

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The roofs of Cali from the hotel

feeling not at all tired. Otoya and Cabal had stayed behind on business. Don Luis got a taxi and we arrived at Casa Gomez in time for tea in the living room.

Mar. 7. Dona Silvia went with us to call on Dr Jorge Ancisar Sordo at his laboratory but he was at a meeting. We left the letter from Dr Wetmore and were shown over the laboratory by some of the assistants. We saw the cotton testing apparatus and the weather records on cotton; we met Roberto Pedroso, Jose Sandoval and George Miller, whose mother is a Colombian. Jose Sandoval is a friend of Gene Callaghan. Before going come we went to the Parque de los Martires where there is the monument to Caldas, Torres and others who were executed by the Spanish governor just before Spain's power was

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Losada and Otoya