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March 24. Slept again [[red underline]] all dressed [[/red underline]] but relatively well in our sleeping car.  A few [[red underline]] bites but they left no traces.  Might have been mosquitoes altho' am told there are no mosquitoes here.  We are here on the [[red underline]] limit of the Rio Grande del Sul State. [[/red underline]] Across the river is [[red underline]] Santa Catharina State. [[/red underline]] Went up the hill to one of the "hotels" for coffee for which they charged [[red underline]] one mille Reis. [[/red underline]] Met a polite [[red underline]] Italian [[/red underline]] gentleman there who is at the head of selling lands of the local colony and who spoke some English.  tells me he has traveled all over Brazil, says all lands from here to twenty kilometers further are all sold to Brasilians  The average [[red underline]] tract is 24 hectares [[/red underline]] Says the [[strikethrough]] amounts here [[/strikethrough]] crops are [[red underline]] maize, manina potatoes 
[[left margin in red]] Brazil - Rio Grande del Sul [[/left margin]]

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[[red underline]] grapes - wine - [[mierniree?]] and some tobacco also the timber [[/red underline]] There are [[red underline]] tapirs, ant eaters - jaguars [[/red underline]] and a few snakes and [[red underline]] many monkeys. [[/red underline]] Asked me whether we had heard the noise of the monkeys across the river.  Beautiful weather [[red underline]] If I only had a clean place to sleep and wash [[/red underline]] I would feel perfectly at home. [[red underline]] Everybody here on horseback. [[/red underline]] Men, women old women and children.  Saw a fair haired barefooted girl dashing up hill on a beautiful poney without saddle, [[strikethrough]] as more [[/strikethrough]] and swinging elegantly her latigo.  The latter is a special whip with handle about 16" long ordinarily made of silver with designs worked in and ending with a tongue of leather about 1 1/2" wide