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or twelve nuns in the back chanting their prayers. There are about 800 girls in all and the day pupils are carried back and forth in school buses.
From the school Clara and dona Silvia went to the studio and found Senor Chaves at work copying the Magdalena picture that we liked so much. Also there were many pictures in sight that we didn't see the first time.
After lunch Clara went to Avianca for final check on our tickets; she was told that everything was in order. If we have excess baggage we may take it and pay 90 cents per kilo from Bogota to Barranquilla and 1.00 per kilo from Barranquilla to Miami.
At 4.30 we both went to the Embassy to get authorizations to leave the country. Back at Casa Gomez we had a call from don Luis that the weather probably will not be good and so no trip to Zipaquira tomorrow.

Mar. 11. We went early to Camacho Roldan and bought books by Dickens and Lewis Carroll to give to the two older Murillo girls. As we were coming out of the store we met Carlos Lehmann who said he had just received a letter from Wetmore. Then back to 17-86 to wait to hear from don Luis. He telephoned soon that it was too cold to go to Zipaquira. We never will know why he didn't want to go but it certainly wasn't the weather because the day was sunny and warmer than usual. So we went to the Institute instead and proofread the list of coccinellid identifications.
After lunch Natalie Henry interviewed us for an article to appear in the El Tiempo. Don Luis called, bringing prints of some of the pictures he had taken on our trips and a gift for Lucy. Afterward we went back to Calle 12 to buy a little more silver and a pencil to give Alicia and to leave the Tunja picture by Chaves to be framed. We then went home and tried to call the Zuluetas but found that they had no telephone.
After dinner we called on the Brickells but they were out.

Mar. 12. Started at 7 for Guateque in Boyaca. We leave Bogota as we would go to Guasca but keep on the main road as far as Choconta where we turn off to the right. After passing Macheta we stopped to collect by the road side, taking a good series of Bruchidae from the flowers of [[underlined]] Cassia biflora [[/underlined]] L. In the dooryard of a house nearby we could see quantities of "fique", the fiber that is derived from the local species of Agave and which is used in making coffee sacks, mochilas, etc. We reached Guateque about noon and had our lunch in the hotel. My