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[[in pencil]] April 1, 193[[0]] [[/in pencil]]
character, like the kinky hair of the negro.  Jose has a face Indian and white, but [[underline]]almost kinky hair [[/underline]].
     4:45 same day, other side of São Lourenço, where I was on p. 37 and which I thought was just about "the limit".  Last night's was so much worse that I'm thankful to be back here, and especially thankful that we finally got across the river.  I was feeling pretty desperate.  If we waited for the river to go down we might wait a week or more.  The men were tortured by formigas and the food was scant and very badly cooked, beans and rice about half done, chicken, today, likewise.  I'm glad it was so bad or we might have stayed there. I went back a mile or more out of the weeds