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feet are less swollen and when the doctor has treated my toe again I hope I can get shoes on. I wore a slipper (gym. shoe) on one foot yesterday and heavy stocking on the other. I'll get off pkg 3 of grasses today if I can get shoes on to go to Consulate.
I forgot the snakes. - While collecting Olyra Sampaiana in second colony at base on hill I saw a snake's body about as thick as my wrist, some 8 ft away. The tail disappeared in the brush; looking the other way I saw the head raised, the snake watching me as motionlessly as I was watching him. I quietly stepped backward as if from the presence of majesty, respecting his privacy. The second was about 15 inches long, 5 mm. thick and cream color. The guide lifted it on his machete when he was setting up our camp the last night out. He laid it down and pierced its little head with the machete.