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118 [[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Brazil - Rio Grande del Sul [[/vertical annotation]] [[red underline]] here two days! [[/red underline]] Do not know yet whether we can have a berth in the sleeper in the next train that comes Finally by bribing the Pullman car conductor - [[red underline]] a swarthy lazy rascal who understands nothing but Portuguese, [[/red underline]] we manage to be able to spend the night [[red underline]] in the Sleeping car in which I am now writing [[/red underline]] these notes. We paid the Pullman conductor [[strikethrough]] 10.000 [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Ten mille Reis each which gave him 50 mille Reis [[/red underline]] or about $15.00 american gold. We seem to be saved until to morrow [[red underline]] what next? [[/red underline]] As I am too disgusted with the "restaurants" here around bought some bananas and some [[end page]] [[start page]] 119 mineral water and canned good to hold my supper in the sleeping car which I am watching while the others are going to the miserable hotels. [[red underline]] Being alone gave me also a chance to shave to night before the water gives out. [[red underline]] Things are aggravated by the thought of [[red underline]] having to travel several days more with that stupid whining irritating woman Mrs. Sawyer. [[/red underline]] I should gladly pay more to get out from here but I am told that we are hundred of miles away from settled portions, and that there is no road, not even a waggon road to get us out here and that further up we are more than ever in the [[red underline]] uninhabited [[strikethrough]] un [[/strikethrough]] wilderness. [[/red underline]]