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- by plane-the baby arrived three weeks later.

For supper irs Elliott served a royal meal
compared to our fare of sardines and hard bread. In-
cluded in the several courses were potatoes, gravy
with the meat, beets, biscuts and butter, blackberry
jam, cakey pudding and tea. The native servant serv
ed the mal. The cake-pudding was very fancy and
while you may have heard of its preparation, it was
novel to me. First-she puts the cake batter into
the pan. On the top of it she places a chocolate
syrup, which,as the oake begins to rise, moves down
and under the cake and more or less floats it. It is
@ really delicious desert. For the blessing we all
held hands and sang the dozology { This was all new
to Carlos who had never experienced this sort of
formality and probably never eaten with an American
family before.

According to Mr. Slliott the native Indians
are really taking a beating. They produce the wealth
of the land tho share little in it. There is just
as wide a separation between the natives and the so
called Iguanos or land owners as there is between
the English and the Hindus of India. There are odr-
tain land owners who have literally stolen the land
from the natives, either by legal technicalities or
crooked dealing by vetting their finger prints on
deeds after getting the natives drunk. The Iguanos
have brot whiskey into the area for the purpose of
dezradeing the natives thereby reducing the resistance
from them-1 found this out when I got permission to
collect in Nebaj-the native does not own his farm
and does not have any say as to whether we could
or could not hunt on his property. The Iguanos
control the life of the native and as a result the
Iguanos are powerful and in nearly every case,
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It is interesting to note the yuiche