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[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Chile [[/left margin]]
this country and its people by long residence [[red underline]] tells me that this is a general characteristic all over South America among [[strikethrough]] small [[/strikethrough]] trades men but particularly here [[/red underline]] where retail trade is much in the hands of [[red underline]] Turks or Syrians. [[/red underline]]
March [[overwritten]] 3 [[/overwritten]] 2.  Up at daybreak. [[strikethrough]] Passengers [[/strikethrough]] The hotel has several [[red underline]] bathrooms [[/red underline]], which might be very useful but for the fact that some ^[[of the tubs]] are simply [[red underline]] used as storage for brooms [[/red underline]] and odds and ends and stacks of old newspapers. Passengers deposit their hand baggage in the cement patio or courtyard where the narrow gauge R. R over the Andes start. [[red underline]] Small uncomfortable coaches with rather low windows and seats [[/red underline]] too
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[[red underline]] narrow for two passengers. Every seat crowded with [[/red underline]] hand baggage. A young german with thick concave spectacles, his young wife, [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] and [[red underline]] two crying children [[/red underline]] occupy or better crowd any of the near seats in sight The people in general in this train seem [[red underline]] already to differ from chileans, their physique not so good and seem more of a mixed race, reminding short [[red underline]] thick set Italian strain [[/red underline]] 
Landscape succession of mountains on which grows in patches a plant similar to our [[red underline]] Mesquite [[/red underline]] of the South West, bearing sometimes small red flowers in bunches also straight ramified cacti similar to those in Mexico or California and bearing large dark red flowers.