Journal March 1, 1951 Lima, Peru Alice: Mary put up & Caralia she had brought from Panama. Looked around the city a bit. March 2, 1951. Went to Departamento de Inmigracion to get our passports and entrance cards. Then took a taxi ride to suburbs of San Pedro & Miraflores and visited the Chorillos and Nerviones beaches. Hundreds of bathers in the water and hundreds of "carpas" (small dressing tents) on the sandy track. Most of shoreline bounded by high cliffs but only a few sandy swimming beaches available. Saw a white breasted comant (guanay?) in the surf, and several small gulls with poorly defined dark grey or heads (laughing gulls?), and many large dark (Herman-like) gulls on sand. Uncultivated & planted ground barren & rocky. More or less overcast all day (summer here). Returned to Hotel Maury for lunch. Spent afternoon at the American Embassy registering, getting no specific help on gun permits, reporting to military attaché, and talking with a Gieseke family Mr. Gieseke (of Cusco). Gieseke suggested St Celestino (assistant to Vargas, botanist) Kolinoswki of the university at Cusco as a good man from which to get information concerning the altiplano. Returned to Hotel Maury. March 2, 1951 Visited the Museo "Javir Prado" of the University of San Marcos. Javier Ortiz de la Puerta, who had been at the Chicago Museum for 6 months, arrived about 10 a.m. He spoke some English and offered to help me get my gun permits. The museum had a new jeep and Chevrolet caraway. We went to the office