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April 1, 1930

couldn't bear to sleep in one of these mud huts which harbor the bug that carries elephantiasis. I hate to have their flea bitten dogs come near me and I don't like pigs under foot, with their bichas de pe. I hate to let anything touch their floors which they are all spitting on.  [[Symbol for: new paragraph]] Leaving Sta Rita do Araguaya Jose said he was going to take a rapaze [big boy, lad] because the roads were very bad. I declared I wasn't going