20 HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS Despatch no. 69. February 16, 1949, American Embassy, San José, Costa Rica UNCLASSIFIED enclosure no. shortly after he with a half hour stop for picnic lunch on the banks of small stream with coed water. In the course of the trip we shot 14 rapids and walked around one while the dugouts were worked down through tha rapids by hand. Due to the dry season the river was low and the rapids were not particularly exciting.
Arrived at Palmar we were taken by atation wagon to the guest house or the United Fruit Company where we enjoyed cold drinks from an loetlo refrigerator, eleotric light, comfortable beda ampla running water, 意教过 断提前納租金制备多些 都是主人為都為an 無論做工會會和创 bells and locative dimas. After a fast and a change or loshes we went to the home of Dr. Allan, a botanist Who Idoing some readarah way fox drinks and then to the Company club houso far dinner womadiately after dinnor we want to bed for a long roatfuam nicht sleep. W surpmsingly cold considering that we were back at sea level and we ware gentuul for heavy woolen blankats. learned the next morning that the recording thermometer showed the temperatur. had dropped a Low a a but to us 15 felt like 21.
Pebruary 12, 1949.
We upont a od part of the morning driving about 12 station Wagon With Dr. Alias and Mr. Lathrop, an archeologist from the Harvard Museum who is dieging in the Palmar area. We watched him turn up an ancient earthenware pot but as we have seen others of the same type could not help wandering why he goes to the trouble of digging at all. Towards midday we want by rail car to one of the fruit Company farms called Piedras Blancas, and had lunch at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Scoltock, the farm manager. We had mot his two sisters in Port Limon some months age. After lunch we proceeded to Golrite where we arrived shortly after dark and had a buffet supper. very goed teo. at the home of Mr. Block, the manager there.
February 13, 1949.
We spent the day cruising in a Fruit Company launch and fishing with tine out for a swim and picnic lunch on the beach at which we ate one of the mackerel caught in the morning. The fish were not biting very well but the day was pleasant. We got about a dozen fish altogether. had the good luck to get the first strike and landed a twenty pound call. after playing him for some twenty minutes. Late in the evening got a small parge. Den Perfirio was the day champeion with one galle and two mackerel.
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