Viewing page 56 of 100

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

106
[[left margin in red]] Uruguay [[/left margin]]
[[red underline]] big silver spurs and ditto stirrups. [[/red underline]] Nearly all men at stations in boots and spurs. - [[red underline]] expensive boots. [[/red underline]] Some wear leather leggings. [[red underline]] Officers of army [[/red underline]] wear uniform almost identical with that [[red underline]] of the campaign uniform of our officers, [[/red underline]] except that their leggings [[red underline]] are black instead of tan.[[/red underline]] On the train I meet two couples of [[red underline]] sad old yanks [[/red underline]] who are making trip around So. America. The best of the lot is an old mining engineer Harper who is about 76 years old and travels with his wife and who has interesting tales of his early days in [[red underline]] the West [[/red underline]] when he was [[red underline]] during the Custer massacre
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
107
and how he passed a [[/red underline]] herd of buffalos in a Canyon [[red underline]] numbering around several 100 000 and the man gives the impression of being a very reliable man. [[red underline]] His home was in Montana. [[/red underline]] The other is a former mayor of Akron and a lawyer by profession [[red underline]] and although rather limited is not an unpleasant companion at all. but his wife is the very limit [[in left margin in red]] !! [[margin]]
of selfishness, stupidity, bad manners and homeliness combined with the most unbearingly unpleasant drawling whining delivery and talks [[/red underline]] and talks all the time for saying the most trivial stupidities. I admire the patience or the [[red underline]] foolishness [[/red underline]] of her husband! I notice [[red underline]] more and more [[/red underline]]