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to pay any more.  It would be very little, he said.  How much?  He was going to pay the boy himself, so I had no objection.  The youth has been a help, he belongs in this state and knows the roads and detours, so I relented and am paying his keep, but shall not pay any wage.  I surmise he is going in order to see friends on the way.  As I started to write the road near 

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the state line was very good (for Brasil) running through sandy campo.  But some places yesterday and today seemed almost impassible and we stuck twice today and finally at 4 came to a place when oxen were needed and the boy went back to this place.  After long waiting Jose drove back here.  The oxen hadn't come (and haven't yet, so far as I know) there was nothing for it