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else tomorrow night.  It is all one to me.  Last nights' hotel was relatively good, almoca was in a hut with a mud floor, and this hotel is the usual dirty one.  Jose wanted me to hire a boy to go on from here at 5$ a day and keep, because the roads are so bad.  I declined.  It would add more than $2 a day and the trip will cost some $400 as it is. [[blue vertical line here and at bottom left of page]] Prices here are very high.  Almoca, for example, rice and beans, some chopped meat I didn't try and a

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little onion, no bread, butter or anything else but a demitasse of black coffee was 3$ each, about 35 cents.  The [[underline]] cheapest [[/underline]] lunch room would have served it better for 10c or 15 at most.  Almoca is usually 4$ or 5$.
Sta Rita do Araguay Matte Grosse Sunday night April 6
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Leaving Jataby the road was not the regular one, the bridge being out on that.[[/blue vertical line]]  The road was awful.  Another car came at same time-came to this place.  Drivers seem very anxious to have a companion car.  I did not get much on