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Pasp malachophyllum, [[strikethrough]] Thrasya [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] Paspalum schumannii were the best things. I've added a lot to the number of species I had from Goyaz. Jose is running shorter days than I expected - I recall Annie Peck's wish that married women would tell her [[start blue-pencil line in left margin, marking text]] how to manage a man. But he is quite as good if not better than any I've seen driving before. Mr. Maxwell couldn't make [[/blue line in margin]] his man get a move on. Across Minas the road was very good. We got of at 8:30 instead of 7 and reached Sta Rita do Paranahyba
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about 3:30, giving me time to collect along the river. There is no getting off early. They don't serve café till after 7, and Brasilians fool around and fool around. Now I have 2 presses full I can use time changing driers. In Goyaz the roads are simply awful. Jose has more sense than any Brasilian driver I've seen. He gets out and fills the worst holes before driving into them. The Syrian from Dourados did that but I had not seen a Brasilian do it. The regular method is to drive into the hole, run the engine hard