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16 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 16, 1962 Sunday
Place Rio and Petropolis
Weather Sunny at Rio; cloudy & foggy at Petropolis
The Hubbells met us in the lobby at 8AM, & we started for Petropolis. The outskirts of Rio are very slummy, but as we started to climb, the shanties dropped away, & the lovely mountains rose up with lovely trees full of orchids (not yet in bloom!) & bromeliads, little water falls lined with ferns, & higher still , acres of Impatience plant in orange, pink, cerise & red. The clouds came down as fog when we got higher, so we had no long views of Guanabara Bay. At the end of the line 2 of Bertha's friends met us, & as their autohad broken down, they took us to the apartment of one of them for tea, crackers, cheese, goiaba & home-made butter. Then they showed us the summer home of the president, the residency of Princess Isabelle & the home of Dom Pedro II, now a museum. About 11:30 we got a taxi for Quitandinha, as Bertha said there was good collecting behind the hotel. Maybe sometimes, but not to-day, as it was too
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cold for frogs to be out, although I heard a few singing high up in the trees, & a different kind (perhaps microhylids?) from the artificial lake, but had no means of getting either. I got a lot of insects for Doris, & a fen & some Selaginella for Clyde. We left Dr. Hubbell still collecting, as Doris & I had return tickets for 3PM. We tried to get some tea or coffee in the Hotel's coffee shot but were ignored by the snobbish waiters because of our collecting equipment & sweaters. Dr. & Mrs. Hubbell had exactly the same treatment later in the afternoon. Phui on that hotel!!! At least we got some Kibon (Eskimo pies) from a lad with a pushcart in front of the hotel, so we had that before out bus came. The ride downhill was very quick, & we got to Rio station in 1 hour. We had roast chicken at our Olona hole-in-the-wall, & it tasted good! There were a few blue hydrangeas in Petropolis, just as I had remembered them!
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