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Strangers are asked everywhere extra prices [[strikethrough]] as w [[/strikethrough]]
At Station saw several bundles of skins, pecares? ^[[pecaris]] and a kind of olive gray deer skin? Bales of Manioc [[red underline]] Which is imported from Brazil. [[/red underline]]
Proprietor of restaurant seems an intelligent Brazilian born Italian who speaks some Spanish. [[strikethrough]] He spends his ter [[/stikethrough]] Between times he fixes his mandolin over his counter Syrian says ^[[Colonists of]] [[red underline]] Italian origin predominate, [[/red underline]] then come [[red underline]] Germans & Austrians [[/red underline]] all the preserved canned goods I see in his store - oysters - fish - sardines, sausage pate de foie-gras etc as well as beer liquors, wine cordials [[red underline]] all manufactured in Brazil. [[/red underline]]
[[left margin in red]] Brazil [[/left margin]]
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I begin to look shabby. Shoes all dirty not polished for several days, trousers baggy hole burned in rim of my hat by spark from wood locomotive Bitter lemons and sugar canes for sale in his [[strikethrough]] imin [[/strikethrough]] inn. People come and select a cane, and then whittle and chew it. Great number of leather leggings worn here. [[strikethrough]] Most [[/strikethrough]] Many bare-footed in slippers or sandals. Clasp leather sandals for men as well as children. Negroes [[strikethrough]] wear them [[/strikethrough]] or mulattoes wear them Boys fastening their [[red underline]] bare toes in stirrups while riding [[/red underline]] horse back.
It is now 6 P.M and [[red underline]] I do not know yet where I shall sleep [[/red underline]] to night. That Syrian has explained my case to the station master and that I am willing to pay for privilege of sleeping in