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the morning. I feel so helplessly at their mercy. This inability to control my doings keeps me worried. If I go far ahead of the car I don't know if they'll ever come - they have no watch, Jose's being broken. I walked some 4 or 5 kilometers ^[[inserted]]day before[[/inserted]] yesterday and in 3 hours started back. I'd left them fixing something about the car that they said would take them an hour. That was the day they delayed to search for the ring. At a hut some distance off the
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main road, they inquired about gasoline. There was a supply on hand and after talking for some time the woman went at a snail's pace to find her husband. After a long time he came and after more talk he said he'd sell 2 1/2 boxes, necessary to get us here, for 120$ a box. It is 75$ a box here. But if I telegraphed here I'd have to pay 2 day's wages to have it brought to us, so I bought at 120$ and was greatly relieved that we could get it. It was there the additional 3 hours delay occurred.
We reached the mission
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