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me information.  These English people have been lovely to me. One of the nurses is an American from Chicago, but the two doctors and other 3 nurses and the chief doctor's wife are English.  There is an interesting boy 4 years old - I shall send him some books when I get home.

     I leave Viannapolis at 6 in the morning on the train, reaching [[strikethrough]] Araguary [[/strikethrough]] Goyandira about 2. [[strikethrough]] leave [[/strikethrough]] This is a place I picked out on the way up.  I leave there the next day, reaching Araguary about 5, [[underline]] have [[/underline]] to stay over night, and leave next morning at 8, reaching Uberlandia about 10.  I [[double underline]] hope [[/double underline]] I can make arrange

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ments that day for the trip to Sta [[strikethrough]] Anna [[/strikethrough]] Rita and Cuyaba.  I'm [[underline]] trying [[/underline]] to hope my plants won't suffer [[underline]] too [[/underline]] much - if one could only turn on the sun - stoves are so feeble (and filthy usually).

Araguary - March 27

I felt so cross inside I stopped writing and went over to the [[Faustanes'?]] (the chief doctor's) and borrowed a copy of [[underline]] Punch [[/underline]] I'd seen there.  The sun came out for about an hour and a half and I spread the side walk and thick mud walls with driers and got plants back in press. Of course that meant handing all those heavy trunks (3 of them rather) again, but I was glad of the sun. The caminhão (another one) left at 3:30!  It rained

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