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[[in pencil]] Nov 19, 1929 [[/in pencil]] 29 erim where I was to get sleeper ticket and led me to proper place to get it. I failed to get dinner [evening] on the train as I intended to. I was waiting for someone to call out "dinner is now being served etc" or for the European way of selling tickets for place at table. I asked the conductor three times, on his rare appearances, about jantar, but all I could understand of the flow of language was "espero" ^[[insertion]] [wait] [[/insertion]] and the third time "nada mais", nothing more. I was very hungry so rejoiced when about 9 or later, children again appeared alongside with food. I bought a chunk of bread with a chicken wing and gizzard in the cleft and felt better. The "nocturne" was put on at Campos about 10:30 and I washed some of the grime off and dropped into my ^[[insertion]] "listo [[/insertion]] inferior" [lower berth] and slept in spite of the terrific rocking and lurching of the narrow guage Leopoldia Ry. ΒΆ Dec 4. 9. am. I'm lazy this morning, didn't get up till 7:30. My
