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every tram from the east. Mr. Maxwell telegraphed both to Tres Lagoas and Campo Grande and I asked at telegraph office both places but got none. This is a big town, 10000 Mr. M estimates. It sprawls over a lot of Territory and the country is sadly weedy all around. [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] It looks like "out west", with so many men on horseback, occasionally with the very full gathered trousers I've seen pictured and commonly with leather aprons deeply fringed. [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] There are a great many Japanese here and Syrians. ¶ The Maxwells went to hotel Central. I had been at Colombo, having been told it was the best in town. I was sorry for the rest. The Maxwells suggested I come to Central, (which is off farther than Colombo from town) and I did so. It is worth the $1.50 it cost to move, this is so much cleaner, the rooms built along two sides of a long patio, with grape vines across it, quite the prettiest [[underlined]] native [[/underlined]] hotel I've seen.
I bought a new tripod at a German photographers yesterday. It is the best I ever 

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saw - ought to be, it cost 65$ (about $7). My old tripod which I liked so well got a game leg at Diamantina. One leg took to sliding together unexpectedly. I stuck my knife blade in it, but it was a nuisance. I asked this German to verbesser it, but he said he couldn't, so I bought one he had, in Deutchland gunacht. But I found its screw did not fit my camera and took it back. He had the screw cut down to the size of the Kodak tripods. I couldn't get it till this noon - then I had to wait some time. I meant to get photos today of cerrado typico etc but it was 2 o'clock by the time I got out and then it threatened rain. I just got in before the rain with no photos. It has taken time to pack for the trip to Dourados and to do up my bundles of hay. I have 3 bundles sewed up of Matto Grasso so far and enough will come out tonight to make another fat bundle. ¶ The mosquitoes here are something awful, but not nearly so bad at this hotel as at Colombo. They kept