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I got a Heteropogon with habit of H goyasensis but foliage hairy; and an Androp that I think I got in Matto Grosso.
  We got stuck in the mud today, in a tiny streamlet crossing the road. The hole was just about big enough to fit the back wheels. I went collecting, returned after a while and asked if I could help any. Jose didn't answer so I thought that was foolish question no 22139 and went collecting again, and came back in about an hour. It began to rain. Jose was stuffing clumps of grass below the wheel he had jacked up.
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I pulled clumps of Androp and piled up a lot for him; stood on the piece of log he braced his jack on and in some 15 minutes more he got the machine out - I mean [[underline]] we [[/underline]] did. But alas for our clean clothes! I started out in clean khaki dress and he [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] had been [[/insertion]] in clean khaki too. He cut a finger rather badly and I opened up my first aid and dressed it.
  [[start blue-pencil vertical line in left margin]] We saw two very large emus, males, I suppose. Jose pulled his pistol, but I begged [[/blue line in margin]] him not to shoot. Their feathers made good brooms, he said,