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ready. The cargo is to go on a donkey. At last we three got off leaving Marco to bring on the cargo. Had about 1/2 wait at the station, becoming desperate as Marco didn't show up. Just as the train came in sight, he appeared, 2 or 3 of the townsmen helping push the beast.  Just barely got the cargo transferred to the baggage car.
  Chicken for lunch. Tho the train left Pubenza on time it lost nearly an hour going up.  On reaching the crest down to the Sabana saw the plains flooded tho no rain just then.
  Reached Bogota 6:50 pm., and was warmly welcomed at the hotel. Early to bed.
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                      Wed. May 10
  Found letters from Mason & Wetmore at Inst.  but none from Joyce, alas.  Started in to dry the big lot of wet things from the trip. Hovanitz, an entomologist with the Rockefeller people at Villavicencio, showed up and invited me to dinner at his home.  Terrible rain again in the evening.  The boarding house is run by an Englishwoman and the 3 other people at the Table were a Canadian and 2 from US. Herman & Schultes live there.  Hovanitz walked [[backed?]] with me and we had a couple of beers near the hotel.