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the midges. [[paragraph symbol]] I did find one thing new for me yesterday as we sped along at 40 km an hour or more- this Minas road is very good- a beautiful tall Sporobolus, one specimen. There were others, but with spklts all fallen. I feel that if Jose hadn't wasted so [[underline]] much [[/underline]] time, so that I could have had time to linger in promising places, I would have found much more. I've lost more on this trip than in all the rest of my journeyings: 2 ^[[insert]] of my [[/insert]] straps disappeared from the automobile; the poncho ^[[insert]] a hat, [[/insert]] soap, my best pair