against an outers wall and awaited developments. The "burglar" soon stole his look out an opening about 20 feet from me and looked around and saw me in the shadows. He was obviously puzzled, said nothing, and soon disappeared whistling a song in what I took to be nervous nonchalance. A minute later there was some excited shouting in the building and I suddenly found two gorillas armed with 4-foot iron pipes bearing down on me, one from each direction. It was an awkward situation and did not improve until they had talked themselves down to 1800 words per minute and I finally realized they were watchmen. Rained most all afternoon. This makes, they say, over 100 days straight of rain. June 5 Much running around shopping, exchanging dollars, commuting to University, etc. June 6 Left 7 a.m. for Villanueva by train. Arrived after dark. Station illuminated by 3 candles. Savage not present, no one knew where he was. Spent the night with the Carlos Sanchez family. June 7 No one seemed to know where Savage had gone although they thought he was about half way to Mera. Started out in that direction in the village armibus but came to a river 4 km. south of Villanueva and couldn't cross. Returned to Mera thinking to set up a camp at Dr. Miller's site 5 km. north. However, was told that the village bus was too wide to travel the narrow road. Not knowing when to expect Savage (sent telegram via Sarmenta) decided to set