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Saturday night the auto man said we would start at 4 Sunday morning. Mr. Maxwell was coming back for his wife and another caminhão load of goods. His hadn't all arrived when we left Campo Grande. We were ready at 4. At 6 we heard the auto (the man's house was near by) and at a little before 7 we started. It was a good 6-cylinder automobile, 4 people besides
driver and loaded with our hand baggage, inside and out. We passed 4 disabled caminhãos on

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the way. Mr Maxwell, going to speak to our driver whom he knew found it was the caminhão which left Dourados Thursday with my trunk on board. I was willing to pay anything if our automobile man would take it, so Mr. M told him I'd "pay well" and, being a Syrian, instead of a Brasilian, that induced him to add this heavy thing to all the other stuff on the running board. The senhora, as well as the others, had to climb in over baggage and closed doors. (He only charged 25$- (about * $3.25 - not