motion the cumbersome legal process of expropriation. In

the meantime we live (sleep, eat, cook, wash, etc.) in a
room ft. by 12 Ft. by the main building. Ihis does get

me down at times, but then I reflect that we are not doing
what so many Europeans (e.g. FAO officials) do, which is
live it up rather better than they would in their own
country, with gadgetry and servants, thus setting a standard
to which the educated Peruvian will aspire so as to equal
them, and which is a standard quite in-appropriate in such

a country.

We have two local men working for us on the construction jobs,
and they are very nice and very hard-working, and seem to
identify completely with the place. All day they work with

a plug of coca in one cheek (the drug so much used here, and
the source of cocaine). The government is trying to stop the
use of coca which they say “rots the brain in two years" but
every shop in the village stocks it. An American friend tried
it and said he felt absolutely no Fatigue at the end of a
strenuous day which normally would have made him very tired.
Certainly our men do very heavy work on what one suspects is
a very inadequate diet of starch and more starch, meat extrem-
ely rarely if at all, and no milk.

At one time the villagers left us strictly alone, and there

was quite a Feeling of hostility. After a while we discovered
that they simply did not believe our story that we had come

to help them. Such things are rare and they could not believe
it, and decided that we were more cunning than most white
people who came to exploit them. However, in due course, they
have become convinced of our genuineness, and now we feel

truly welcome and are visited very often by all sorts of people
wanting to see how things are getting on. We also receive gifts
of food when anyone has a surplus, for instance when they have
harvested the maize or potatoes. Unly Sr. Matos, the owner

of "our" mills, had not had his heart softened, and is as in-
tractable as ever. We are not the only ones who suffer from him.
He is the local capitalist end grinds everybody's noses and

is hated all round. He also seems to be feared because they
don't stand up to him even when they could, legally.