Feb. 26-We are going to try once more to get our visa
 without leaving the country. Captain Egger [Salva-
 tion Army] talked with his neighbor, a doctor, about
 our situation and he said that he thought a letter
 from the American consul or ambassador would do
 the trick. So we're going to try. We've also written
 the Haitian consul in New Orleans to see if he can
 do anything.
 Oh, everything here is like a jigsaw puzzle. You
 never know what government offices will do or
 won't do or how long they will take. It's as bad as
 Washington, D.C. Our first visa extension is up
 Saturday. We will get it, wait about three weeks;
 and if the jeep hasn't arrived, we'll make plans to
 leave the country some other way. If the impossible
 happens, we may get our visa right here.
 I stopped by the shop of the carpenter who's
 making our chairs, today. He had not followed our
 patterns exactly. He cut the side pieces too short,
 making the chair less deep than intended. The sides,
 front, and back were not on the square on one chair.
 But I guess it will be okay. We didn't expect period
 furniture when we got him to make the chairs. We
 just want something to sit in in the living room. If
 it is slightly off the square, it will match the rush
 rug and the rest of the house.
 This a.m. we went through the covered market
 looking for some wooden basins to plant some begonia-
 like plants to put on the front porch. We didn't find
 any like we wanted, but the market is always such
 an interesting place to look around in. They have
 practically every kind of vegetable there is for sale
 on one side. In the middle are the cloth and hard-
 ware merchants with their mill ends and enamel
 ware. On the other side in one quarter are the mer-
 chants with baskets, pottery (crude flowerpots and
 water jugs, etc.), straw hats, leather sandals, and