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feet in diameter. (Mine are usually, as here, taken in an ordinary enamel basin, but twice on this trip a kind woman has offered me one of these big basins of warm water.) The basin was set on the ^[[insertion]] earth [[/insertion]] floor in a sort of store room off the kitchen. You said once it took a lot of agility to get a meal (in camp) without stepping in the food. That occurred to me when I found how much agility it took to take a bath on an earth floor, ^[[insertion from bottom of page, indicated with arrow to this spot]] (no chair or bench, of course,) [[/insertion from bottom of page]] ^[[insertion]] dry oneself and [[/insertion]] get into footwear again without stepping on (no chair or bench of course,) [[end page]] [[start page]] the earth floor. With that good bath and my mosquito net I slept well. The handsome girl slept in another bed. She hopped out while I was dressing and was all ready, having slept in her dress. The next river, Rio Babylonia, had a ferry. The oxen and ferry were at my charge, of course. We reached here about 11 ^[[insertion]] (Saturday) [[/insertion]] The country changed [[blue vertical line in left margin]] before reaching Rio Ortega, we were in Amazon watershed, I surmised, and when I got a beautiful Elionurus I never saw before and an Aristida new for me, my [[/blue line in margin]]