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plus expenses, but I said 100 only. If I couldn't go for that I'd go by auto bus as far as I could and give up Cuyabá. Auto bus runs 3 times a week and all these things waste so [[underline]] much [[/underline]] time at dirty little stopping places, weedy in all directions. I've only 3 weeks left for the sertão and I do hope this trip will be worth what it costs. The road goes from here N W to Rio [[Paranhijba?]] across southwestern Goyaz to Rio Araguary (my only chance to collect in Amazon [[strikethrough]] mat [[/strikethrough]] basin) and across Matto Grosso to Cuyabá. We leave Sunday

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6 a.m. "sem falta" (without fail). Having tomorrow here I'll have everything dried to leave here in truck. I'm sunning all dried packages every chance I get.

I shall not write again till I reach Rio -- or at least mail any letters. for from here, on my return, I go straight (by a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] crooked route) to Rio and shall get there quicker than a letter would. I hope to reach Rio by April 22 or 23 if not April 20. I look forward to letters when I get there.

Here is hoping for luck and all the species I haven't found and Hitchcockia brasil. 

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Rio Paranaíba Rio Araguari