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Grosso, mentioned a place I was going to there and she said Dyott had stayed at the mission. I said I'd heard his lecture and asked what they thought of him in Brazil. "Well - the missionaries didn't think much of him" was all she said. But Dr. Gerald Golden, the English physician said flat "Dyott is an absolute imposter!" I don't know how long this trip will
take, a month probably. So far as I know no botanist has been there. Dr. Hunnicutt says it is exceedingly slow going up river to Cuyabá so I shall return to Minas (or [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] to Casa Branca in São Paulo, close to the line  - Dr. Campos Ponto advised me to go there) and resume the itinerary I made out for