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out as in a [[red underline]] slumgullion camp in the West. [[/red underline]]
Saw mills and lumber piles.
I note in the woods some elegant [[red underline]] slender bamboo-like rush [[/red underline]] which grows to about 20 feet high to a slender point, [[strikethru]] then [[/strikethru]] vines growing over it made it topple over until it makes a most graceful vine clad arch.
[[red underline]] Capo-Ere [[/red underline]] frame bdgs and more lumber yards. 
[left margin sideways in red: Brazil] 
Frills a succession of Fern-trees or tree-ferns).
[[red underline]] Paiol-Grande [[/red underline]] said to be settled by poles.
Deep red soil seems very fertile. Also some [[red underline]] Yucea filamentora [[/red underline]] getting higher and higher.
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[[red underline]] Urugay - River [[/red underline]] now along side seems rather shallow flowing river, with two wood-clad embankments some rapids Finally arrive at [[red underline]] Marcelino Ramos the end of this R.R. [[/red underline]] A beautiful situation but a most miserable assemblage of a few wooden huts called hotels. and [[red underline]] every bed, several in a room already taken. [[/red underline]] Nobody understands English or French, so have to fall back on my spanish and only a few people understand this. [[red underline]] Station chief speaks no language but Portugese. [[/red underline]] nobody to help me carry my baggage up the steep hill so leave it behind. [[red ]] another perplexing conditunderline]] No room to be had. [[/red underlineion. Have to stay