January 2, 1918 We awoke in Arizona in the Yucca Belt... the afternoon was passed traveling through New Mexico. At Columbus, a large camp of negro cavalry were guarding the border. We reached El Paso at 3pm. Here there was a large camp of U.S. soldiers guarding the Mexican Border. Many Mexicans were living in adobe houses in the _______places near the town. January 3, 1918 Our way lay through Kansas today. There was no snow in sight and the weather was mild.... At 10pm we reached Kansas City and stopped 10 minutes. I visited the telegraph station, but received no word from Osgood. January 4, 1918 Daybreak in Illinois, where we met our first snow... Chicago was reached at 1pm at the La Salle Street Station. I rang up the Field Museum but Osgood was away at Gulfport, Mississippi for a fortnight of rest. A.B. Lewis the anthropologist took care of me fine on my arrival at 3:30pm at the Museum. I took dinner with him at his house where I met his wife and his sister. Lewis has a great Library of travel books... He told me of his 4 years travel in New Guinea and showed me many photos he took there. He said the natives were friendly... but travel in the interior was impossible due to lack of food and transport except native who eat themselves or load up in 16 days.... He had published nothing about his New Guinea travels. I met Gerhard and a new man, Chub, of Stanford, who now has the reptiles and the fishes in the Museum.