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Porto Esperança, Matto Grosso
March 2 1930 7:15 am
Sunday

Dear Prof Hitchcock,
I am waiting for the boat for Corumbá due to leave 9 last night. It waits for the train which was due at 2:40 [[insertion]] p.m. [[/insertion]] yesterday. It is said to arrive at 9 this morning, then the boat goes. [[left margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] The "pantenal" (fresh water marsh) which extends for many miles eastward from Rio Paraguay [[/left margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] has given me pretty good collecting - and most awful torture. I have had two days here, the first going east along ry. which forms a causway across the marsh which I waded into when I saw