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was awfully discouraged the first day, but the second took an auto for a mountain 16 miles distant, Urucúm. I took a boy there as guide and a young man with a gun invited himself. I got a number of things, an Ichnanthus I never saw before, Raddia brasiliensis [[underlined]] with spikelets [[/underlined]] and a Panicum of Laxa group new for me. Yesterday I took an auto again, my feet being blistered from coming down Urucúm in wet shoes, [[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] 5 (?) [[/insertion]] miles to Bolivian Frontier, and got Gouinia in Brasil as well as in Bolivia. This must be Spencer Moore's "Pogochloa brasiliensis". I saw his type. It is Gouinia.
I leave on the boat this afternoon for Porto Esperança, getting the train there at 4 a.m. for 

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São Paulo. I'm not sorry to leave Matto Grosso. There is one place seen from train where I'd like to stop, but I am more than a week behind the schedule I made out for myself. It took so long getting to Dourados and waiting to get there. I have so much hay in bundles my adjustable trunk is bulging. I think I shall despatch this trunkful ^[[insertion]] from São Paulo [[/insertion]] to Miss Brandt's at Rio and bring it home with me. I have a superfluity of trunks in Rio, having borrowed 2 from Nat. Mus and collecting cases of Killips to bring Mrs. Mexia's stuff in.
When I reacheded Corumbá Monday morning (boat came in during night) the carnival jamboree was on and hotels had no room.  The auto driver, with my trunk, finally