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looked almost lie my idea of the Amazon jungle. Being more than 4 hours late it was dark long before we reached the Paraná. It was raining and pitch dark, so I did not see a bit of this great river. The bridge seemed to me as long as that over the Mississippi at St Louis, but I don't know how much of it was approach. I hope to see it going back. for the last three hours the mosquitoes were a perfect torment. For the first time since I was sixteen I wished for long skirts. I had to double up like a jack-knife to wrap my legs in my short skirt. Hoehne's map gave Tres Lagoas region as

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subxerophytic cerrado (campo with scattered low trees) and coming to hotel from station through the wet, my feet recognized sand instead of clay, by the lack of weight, and my heart rejoiced.
I got started about 7:30 in the morning and after getting away from town and weeds I thought I had struck it rich. But the country isn't diversified. After collecting about as fast as I could for a couple of hours I went on for hours not adding on the average a species a kilometer. The same species were found throughout nearly. Today I struck out in the opposite direction and