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[[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Uruguay - Montevideo [[/vertical annotation]]
^[[local]] [[red underline]] slaughterhouse [[/red underline]] where people send their cattle. Dripping carcasses carried or carted away from there. Small boys carrying square [[red underline]] tin cases (Standard Oil) full of blood. Men all plastered over with blood makes me shudder at our barbarous practice of killing animals and eating them. [[/red underline]] Now and then a [[red underline]] Gaucho [[/red underline]] with boots - spurs, sombrero and poncho.
I notice that clothes and everything displayed in the stores is [[red underline]] cheaper than in B.A. altho' quality seems better [[/red underline]] specially material for clothes of men less shoddy material.
Motor cars and taxicabs, and horse carriages are more expensive. One ordinary [[red underline]] horse [[/red underline]] can be purchased for from [[red underline]] 20 to 30$, [[/red underline]] for
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$50 to $70 a good riding horse
I notice in the gardens and small farms [[red underline]] Palms figs, Grapes peaches and almonds. [[/red underline]]
In the restaurant there is good [[red underline]] Chilean and Argentinean wine [[/red underline]] at moderate prices [[red underline]] also home made wine, [[/red underline]] and imported french, Swiss, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German wines liqueurs, and brandies and whiskies. Here as in B. A and Santiago, [[red underline]] Vermouth mixed with bitters [[/red underline]] and carbonic water seems favorite beverage in the cafés before meals. 
[[red underline]] Fish and vegetables are relatively expensive, [[/red underline]] on the other hand in the [[red underline]] best restaurants a fine Rumpsteak is sold 24 cents [[/red underline]] and Filet bearnaise [[red underline]] 34 cents [[/red underline]] 
^[[strikethrough]] chicken + greens = 26¢ [[/strikethrough]] decidedly cheaper than present and antiwar prices of New York