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evening as we went down a slope a picture spread before us that night have been an allegorical one. The deep valley below lay in shadow, the narrowing road ran straight up hill beyond to the summit flooded with lovely after-rain light, and, seemingly joining the [[strikeout]] top [[inserted]] end [[/inserted]] [[/strikeout]] top of the road the end of a segment of rainbow, reaching to white clouds above. It was a remarkable and beautiful "composition". The sunset was glorious.
I spoke of the many [[vertical blue lines in left margin]] parrots seen. I saw a few "ar[[strikeout]]r[[/strikeout]]aras" also, the very [[/blue lines]]

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large parrots of gorgeous blue and yellow, that call "ararra."
- Later. José has been over to say he will be here at 6:30 a.m. I wonder! I'll be ready, however. Olyra helicania, ^ [[inserted]] Pasp ellipticum [[/inserted]] and the Goyaz localities for Pasp pictum and the other, have made me less provoked with him. He has friends in Sta Rita in Matto Grosso and I suppose has been talking and drinking coffee most of the day - for which I have to pay him 100$. But when I think of Mr. Maxwell's men, and the Goyaz man that kept me waiting an hour and a half and then went off without me, after my paying for passage,