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[[image - black and white photograph of a hotel, with car parked under a tree.]]
[[caption]] The hotel at Puerto Octay. [[/caption]]

After a very good lunch, the proprietor joined us in a walk in the woods near the lake. In a rotten stump I found about 40 specimens of cosmetid and one small scorpion. The best collecting was under stones and logs. On the way back to the hotel we found a dead tree on fire. We all took off our coats and put it out with some difficulty. When I picked up my coat I found that sparks had landed on it and there were two holes, one of which was in a conspicuous place. When we got back to our hotel in Osorno we had hot baths which did a lot to raise our spirits. My suit was by now a sorry looking mess but a thorough brushing did help it a lot. It was my only good suit in Chile and if Raul hadn't been such a dude I wouldn't have been wearing it.

[[image - black and white photograph of landscape with waterfalls, city, forest, mountains.]]

[[caption]] Falls of Pilmaiquen, with Puntiagudo and Osorno. [[/caption]]

Mar. 1. Teuber, Mrs Teuber, Corral, Suarez, Cortes and I started at 9.30 AM for Pilmaiquen in the station wagon. The ride was much more comfortable than the one yesterday. We stopped to see the falls and to take pictures and also to visit the new hydroelectric plant there below the falls.