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[[in pencil]] Nov 19, 1929 [[/pencil]]

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virgata group,(millegrana most prominent,) and Trichachne insularis standing untouched in grazed land, mostly of Axonopus compressus. Hills, where cleared, mostly in coffee. Reached Alegre 10:18 with all our baggage, one U.SDA  case (AC's) and 5 pieces of Mrs. M's, besides ^[[insertion]] our [[/insertion]] hand baggage. We had a letter to Sr. Mario Almeida. While Mrs. M. stood guard over the baggage at station I set out to find Sr. Almeida. He is a comprador de cafe and I found him in his ware house, piled with coffee sacks. He said it was impossible for the senhora to climb Caparaó and after trying desperately to make him understand in my poor Portuguese that we [[underlined]] were [[/underlined]] going and only wanted him to help us get a motorcar to Rio Pardo, I went after Mrs. M, whose Spanish is usually understood - they mostly take it for bad Portuguese. We hired a boy to stay with hand baggage and went back to Sr. Almeida.  A deafening jabber with half the town taking part went on for an hour. The road was impassible to Rio Pardo and it was not nearest place to the mountain anyway. An onlooker who knew the region said Santa Barbara

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Names of grasses verified