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crowd of men who all seemed to know each other and who [[red underline]] as I learned afterwards went to a great agricultural competition on cattle and horse show, [[/red underline]]ͯ so that all births of sleeping cars were taken. 
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ͯ at Tacuarembo [[/annotation underlined in red]]
I slept in a [[red underline]] compartment with three others, [[/red underline]] one a German-Brazilian, Max Steinbach, the two others Uruguayan. The two upper ones were [[red underline]] noisy bed fellows [[/red underline]] who kept talking excitedly in the dark gesticulating with their cigarettes in their hand and making their incandescent [[strikethrough]] ends [[/strikethrough]] [[buds?]] move about like fire flies
Had very little sleep and got up early to
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see landscape. [[red underline]] Endless grazing fields, [[strikethrough]] but a [[/strikethrough]] as in Argentina [[/red underline]] but gently rolling and here and there some indications of rock reminds much of the grazing [[red underline]] plains of Nebraska. [[/red underline]] Splendid cattle, horses and sheep
Gauchos here and there with their wide brimmed hats, silver handle latigos, ponchos, wide trousers and "accordeon" boots and big spurs, all [[black and red underline]] showing indian origin. [[black and red underline]] Other cattlemen and ranchmen more or less same costume. Pretty combination of [[strikethrough]] bla [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] big black top boots, [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] snow white cotton very wide trousers, a dark jacket, dark or gray wide brimmed hat [[/red underline]] and pinkish red silk handkerchief, together with