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

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interminable waiting, a big basin (2 1/2 ft diameter, which is the bathtub of interior Brasil) of fairly warm water each, and I [[underlined]] slept [[/underlined]]. Nov 30. Saturday we spent drying plants - our main supply ^[[insertion]] of driers [[/insertion]] had been left at Sta Barbara - and putting last collections made on way down and morning's walk into driers. Sunday Dec 30 I left ^[[insertion]] 6:30 am [[/insertion]] on the caminhão, with a family who were moving, for Veado on the railway, just caught the train and reached Rio 8:30 yesterday Dec 2. My grasses all came through in good condition.
Today [[insertion]] (Dec 3) [[/insertion]] I've been laid up for repairs, one foot I can't get a shoe on, changed driers and spread them in one ^[[insertion]] (heavy) [[/insertion]] stocking foot. The Russian doctor who took the bichos out of my hands yesterday, treated my [[strikethrough]] foot [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] little toe [[/insertion]] today, not a bicho but an infected spot, the nail broken loose at base - from descending in wet shoes, of course. Mrs. M stayed over at