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half-frantic from clouds of midges. The Brasilians call them mosquitoes, but they are not mosquitoes -- there are plenty of them, besides, -- but tiny flies that suck blood. Wiping off a lot ^ [[insertion]] (smashing them) [[/insertion]] leaves the skin smeared with blood. [[blue pencil line along margin of following paragraph]] ΒΆ Goyaz is (this southern part of it) a succession of chapados, plateaus with gently sloping valleys between. The altitude is from 400 to 700 meters. The country is mostly campo and cerrado. "Cerrado" is the term used for open or rather dense woods of low crooked gnarled trees, with
