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[[margin, red pencil, written vertically]] Arica Peru [[/margin, red pencil, written vertically]]
of green. a gray yellowish color, furrowed here and there by ravines made during the rainy season. With a marine glass I followed those ravines which usually cease before they reach the lower part of the shores. The water wherever it ran seems to have been swallowed up by the soil as if it were blotting paper.
[[underlined]] Feb. 14. [[/underlined]] We anchored before [[underlined in red]] Arica's [[/underlined in red]] bleak mountainous shores. The little place lies North of a big Rock where the Peruvian officer and his men jumped on horseback over the cliff into the sea sooner than to surrender to the Chileans. A lower rocky island sends its guano odor. [[underlined in red]] Rowboats took us ashore. [[/underlined in red]] Some [[underlined in red]] green
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[[margin, red pencil, written vertically]] Chile [[/margin, red pencil, written vertically]] 
carefully fostered in patches most of the place as dry as can be. [[underlined in red]] Dry dry desert mountain [[/underlined in red]] everywhere. [[underlined in red]] Adobe houses, steep pebble covered streets - [[/underlined in red]] others [[underlined in red]] only sand. [[/underlined in red]] Now and then a burro of diminutive size. Habitants look much as in [[underlined in red]] Peru. [[/underlined in red]] A diminutive little plaza with Palm trees and green just before the little white painted church. This is Sunday and service is going on. A trombone in drawn out tones accompanies the transfiguration then the [[underlined in red]] military band in white [[strikethrough]] unifor [[/strikethrough]] cotton uniforms [[/underlined in red]] and tan leather leggings and ditto shoes walks out and before service is over is playing [[underlined in red]] German soldier music on the bandstand near the Plaza. [[/underlined in red]] Quite a number of