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December 1, 1954
Puertos Barrios
Hotel del Norte

Arrived Puerto Barrios early this
morning. Everything up to now is in the
pale compared to Guatemala. The trip be-
tween Havana and Barrios was uneventful
except for rougher water, but. then only
enough to run the last drop of soup on to
one side of the bowl so you could easily
and politely get the last drop; I did see
a show on the boat with Walter Pidgeon
which was very good and also a short on
some archeological work sponsored by the
United Fruit Company which gave me the
idea that they might also consider spon-
soring a zoological expedition. Now,
that they know Bee from the top to bottom,
would be a good time to approach them.
Imagine, eating all the bananas you wanted
for nothing!

At the dock, met Mr. Holiday who is
the manager of the interests of the United
Fruit Company at Barrios. He took me over
to the office and we started to see how
far we could go about getting the car off
the boat and on a flat car. Two other
ships were ahead of the Cubabama and
loaded with new cars. These new cars will
have to be unloaded first and then, per-
haps tomorrow they can start on the Cuba-
bama. My car was the last item to be
placed on the boat at New Orleans and
therefore handy.for getting off the boat.
But, at Honduras, they put the car deep
in the ship and loaded 100,000 pounds of
pipe on top of it, so it may not be until