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[[red underline]] their breakfast, [[/red underline]] three or four younger gauchos sitting around too, all handling their long pointed knife, about [[red underline]] 20" [[/red underline]] long to [[red underline]] slice off the meat from the piece in the fire [[/red underline]] and handling it ^[[and eating it]] on the point of their machete.
Each their large poncho or mantle, big [[red underline]] accordian boots, [[/red underline]] or [[?]] of older times. big spurs etc. [[red underline]] Santa Anna [[/red underline]] was said to have about 8000 souls. The place is not attractive at all but the [[red underline]] surrounding [[/red underline]] wood clad hilly [[red underline]] country [[/red underline]] is very [[red underline]] attractive [[/red underline]]
The train had to wait for another connection and so we left about [[red underline]] 6 hours late [[/red underline]] almost certain to miss our connections at 
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[[red underline]] Marcelino Ramos. [[/red underline]] Henderson tells us we [[red underline]] shall have to wait two days there so as to be quarantined etc. [[/red underline]] All matter unpleasant prospects I see some [[red underline]] live chickens being brought in the restaurant car. a filthy [[strikethrough]] cou [[/strikethrough]] car [[/red underline]] little better [[red underline]] than a caboose [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] A very [[/strikethrough]] Train left at [[red underline]] 12M [[/red underline]] instead of [[red underline]] 6 00 AM. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Locomotive [[/strikethrough]] Two locomotives to get us up hill. [[red underline]] locomotive burn wood. [[/red underline]] Pretty hill-land scenery. Some [[red underline]] royal palms, [[/red underline]] a few [[red underline]] mountain palms, [[/red underline]] then tall trees look like pines but are the [[red underline]] Auraucaria Brasilienius [[/red underline]] with tall straight trunks and flat crown of symmetrical branches. [[strikethrough]] Grape vines [[/strikethrough]] a few [[red underline]] grape vines, [[/red underline]] some small [[red underline]] peaches, [[/red underline]] bunches of pampas grass, bamboo, some

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Auraucaria Brasiliensis is commonly called Brazilian pine or candelabra tree