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telling Jose I'd return at 2. The men were working to get the barça (ferry boat) back up the stream. Shortly after I quit writing they got the automobile back on land and to the hovel where we passed the night. Then I struck for the campo. I got an Eragrostis in eroded sand that I don't think I've had before, but Eragrostises are so variable I never know whether they are new or old. 

I got a few other things just for locality, the tall Thrasya, Leptocoryphium, Elionurus and such. I got the Pasp that I think is Hackel's Eriochloa castanea that I got at Tres Lagoas. [The midges are still biting and my face and neck are all sore from them and very sensitive.]

About 3 Jose said we were

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going to try crossing at another place. If we couldn't make it we would have to wait for the river to go down. I was mightily relieved to have him try and felt hopeful when I saw several husky men at the ferry, which was farther up stream than the regular place. I never saw men work so hard in my life, in the water and at the paddles in the dugouts. They got the ferry up stream in the less rushing water near the shore, pulling on trees, swimming with a rope in the teeth, tying it to a tree, the others pulling on that. In less than an hour we were up stream about a thousand feet, then swung out, the men's muscles like great cables, and down stream to the other landing. Again they swam ashore the tied up. It was a magnificent display of strength. I have Jose 10$ extra to give the men. I

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Transcription Notes:
Eriochloa castanea now Paspalum macranthecium Eduard Hackel (1850 – 1926,) was an Austrian botanist.