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corn. Pass [[red underline]] Pinhal [[/red underline]] small settlement on a plateau of rolling prairie land good grazing, small primitive farms. We are now [[red underline]] 1700 feet high. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Nice fresh air [[/strikethrough]] beautiful blue sky. [[strikethrough]] Hills clad with Araucaria and other trees, mostly big hardwood trees [[/strikethrough]]
[[left margin in red]]Rio Grande del Sol [[/left margin]]
March 23 (Tuesday) Up early [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] Beautiful blue sky. Fresh [[red underline]] dry air. [[/red underline]] wooded landscape [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] of [[red underline]] Rio Grande del Sul. [[/red underline]] Hilly country Hills heavily covered with timber. [[red underline]] Auraucaria [[/red underline]] brazeliansis also sejular jungle, [[strikethru]] fro [[/strikethru]] some pampas grass, then large irregular massive hardwood trees. Now and then a small beginning farm made out of a few huts with a little cultivated patch
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around mostly [[red underline]] maize [[/red underline]] and a [[red underline]] few pumpkins. [[/red underline]] Houses and [[red underline]] huts made use of wood [[/red underline]] Altitude about [[red underline]] 2700 [[/red underline]] feet now. [[red underline]] Sawmills [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] lumber [[/red underline]] yards. [[red underline]] Settlements [[/red underline]] in this wilderness [[red underline]] begin to look [[/red underline]] like [[red underline]] U.S. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] frontier [[/strikethrough]] Western pioneer farms. [[red underline]] German [[/red underline]] many [[red underline]] poles [[/red underline]] also some [[red underline]] Brazilians [[/red underline]] Some fair haired [[red underline]] polish looking women, [[/red underline]] one of them at the station with her seven flea ^[[flea]] bitten children [[strikethrough]] arou [[/strikethrough]] clustered around her and [[red underline]] she seeming hardly above [[/red underline]] childhood and already [[red underline]] seven times a mother. [[/red underline]] Some [[red underline]] German [[/red underline]] looking chaps here and there. Saw some "mate" trees. 
[[red underline]] Erebaneo. [[/red underline]] station got some coffee in a hut paid [[red underline]] 1000 Mille Reis for it [[/red underline]] ladled
[[left margin]] [[red underline]] Cruz Alto [[/red underline]] a Garrison town - much people at station, went to walk as far as first street of town. - [[red underline]] White cotton mantles of some of the men. [[/red underline]] [[/margin]]