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brush and some trees in the marsh. There have been distant hills both sides of the river - on the west side all the way. I looked at the map and see Rio Paraguay has nothing to do with Iguassú - that is Paraná. [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] I wonder where [[insertion]] Rio [[/insertion]] Paraguay does fall.* * Mr. Clark says there is no fall, alt 107 must be error. [[/margin, written vertically]] [[margin, written vertically, bottom to top]] ¶ I have seen many birds, gray herons, white herons, two tuyuyus again, near enough to see they are like storks. [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] I saw a wild turkey and three jacares (Crocodiles) these pointed out by some young men. I heard them say "perú" and point and I saw the turkey. The river is about the color of the Potomac or browner, but is silvery now the sun is low. I have seen many [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] small floating islands and one good sized one with small shrubs on it. And I saw a few [[underlined]] cactus [[/underlined]] in the margin - I had seen two big ones east of Porto Esperança. [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]]
Transcription Notes:
First blue vertical line is not underlining "fall" in margin note, rather, emphasizing paragraph in text.
Added in the pilcrow mark as written by Mary and think that the margin note should probably be added next to asterisk for ease of reading but am happy to be corrected if some other volunpeer has strong options on this - @siobhanleachman