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stopping less than 3 days. This side of Campo Grande there are but 2 trains a week, so I shall not stop anywhere.
The German is asking  prices of everything in U.S. and comparing them with Germany [[underlined]] and [[/underlined]] here.
On board, 9:15 and the train not yet arrived. It takes 18 hours to reach Corumbá, so we get there early in the morning, in time for a day's botanizing. I have my presses in the sun here on deck.
I said I hoped the mosquitoes were not so bad on the river. The German says they are nach schlechter! I have my mosquito bed net along. That is my life-saver. Most hotels have nets but they are mostly too

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small. They say the train is coming!
Botanizing along the Paraguay river and mashing the mud from roots in the river gives me a feeling of wide travel I haven't had before. It is 107 meters alt at Pts Esperança - I guess this water goes over Iguassú falls ^[[insertion]] (It doesn't) [[/insertion]] the map isn't quite straight in my head.
It is a beautiful stream; just hope it flows west, making a turn a few kilometers down stream. - In my letter on Dourados [[margin, blue vertical line]] I mentioned birds but forgot the [[underlined]] toucan. [[/underlined]] We saw one flying quite close, nearly half beak. [[/margin, blue vertical line]]
6 pm. It has been a wonderful day on the river. Just here Pasp fasciculatum stretches eastward almost to the horizon, but there has been much