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then going to a shop we visited ^[[earlier]] above the port, to buy a T-shirt for me. It was aquamarine with 2 huge toucans a full size -- on the front. A size too large for me, which is why I didn't buy it before, but the only T-shirt I liked from Corumba. Well, but most of the stack of shirts had been sold since ^[[day before]] yesterday! No  green with toucans & v. little else remained. A busload of people must have been by -- in fact, several very young people were present buying things. And in the next room T-shirts were drying from the silk screens. I bought a white with a flowering tree and two toucans -- different and probably better than the green design -- my size (46). Then I also bought a handsome pink & orange shirt, much too big (50) with a design of Pantanal in black. Worth refitting when I get home (at $5.00 U.S,)!
Not hungry tonight -- naturally not after tea. So we had our last 2 bananas and the juice of 4 oranges and called it a day. Full moon mostly behind thick clouds, with now and then a glimpse. 
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Souvenir
Corumbarte
AV GA: RONDON 1019
E AEROPORTO DE CORUMBA
3300 CORUMBA MS BRAS
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[[underlined]] April 5 - Good Friday [[/underlined]]
Awake ~ 6:30 as usual; breakfast downstairs where it was [[underlined]] cold [[/underlined]]. Tom wore his sweater and I my raw silk jacket. Finished packing and decided, finally, to leave behind my old red designer raincoat. Started to leave it in Punta Arenas, then decided I might need it if the rains continued up north. The coat is very old. I bought it on a sale at Bonwit's years ago. It was a bit too big, so I took it apart and revised it down. It had all sorts of details, such as little "belts" around each cuff. It has seen great service and always looked great. Traveled to China in the bottom of my hand baggage, and several times to Europe. But now it is soiled, after much cleaning, with a bad spot in front, and coming apart at the seams. I have at least 2 newer raincoats at home but neither will ever see the service this one did. It is rather heavy & bulky in my suitcase so, for better or worse, I left it ^[[behind}} with my straw Pantanal hat. As we went out the door we saw our empregada but failed to mention our intent to abandon those things.
 
Half an hour before leaving the hotel, I went out to take pictures around the area of the Grande Hotel. The sky was still gray & overcast -- none of the sunshine that diffused through the flamboyants two days ago. But, the one building that jogged my memory in the whole town was the green one with little colored window panes opposite the hotel on Frei Marianas St. On the opposite corner our handsome taxi driver of yesterday was energetically wiping off his car, which he did at each of our stops even in the rain. Another man was doing the same thing a few yards away -- it appears to be a Brazilian pastime.