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126 [[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Brazil [[/vertical annotation]] me [[red underline]] Italians predominate here in Marcelino Ramos next come Germans [[/red underline]] but in Santa Catharina. Joinville and Blumenau [[red underline]] are mostly Germans or Austrians. [[/red underline]] Went across the Urugay river in a dug-out, paddled by a [[strikethrough]] youn [[/strikethrough]] boy half negro, half Indian. Pretty sight of village. The woods here contain [[liendis?]] monkeys, some jaguars,(?) tigers, the Syrian tells me. Some men on horseback, like [[red underline]] villains in the play [[/red underline]] with big black [[red underline]] Sombreros, [[/red underline]] on saddle softened with sheepskin and rear and back with [[red underline]] silver ornaments [[/red underline]] pass along, also a german or polish looking lad, on horseback barefooted in [[red underline]] slippers, [[/red underline]] which is the favorite way of being shod [[end page]] [[start page]] 127 here. [[red underline]] Syrian ^[[(Camillo Juachim)]] tells me people in the woods here are very bad [[/red underline]] Some time ago he went 6 hours thru woods on horseback to fetch some payments of [[red underline]] Singer Company and a young man shot him with a revolver thru hand and forearm. Says there are wild Indians [[/red underline]] in the woods further up. The roar of the Falls are plainly heard. Stopped at [[red underline]] a store Italian [[/red underline]] of Venetian father and his wife ditto born here both keep store where he sells [[red underline]] Yerba Maté also skins of wildcats otters [[/red underline]] and other wild animals crude state. An old kind Brazilian - big sombrero - half Indian sipping maté from his silver bombilla. All say many monkeys around here live in the woods. [[The following underlined name is divided by an "S" shaped mark indicating the order of the names should be reversed]] [[red underline]] Juachim Camillo [[/red underline]] Coritiba