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146 [[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Brazil - Sao Paulo [[/left margin]] temperature magnificent. Can get along with summer wear yet a light overcoat is not too warm. [[red underline]] Wines imported from France, Italy, Chile, Portugal [[/red underline]] etc. Small [[red underline]] boys 14 years old [[/red underline]] handle elevators carry baggage etc. and look quite wide awake in hotel. One porter speaks some [[strikethrough]] French [[/strikethrough]] English one of the waiters speaks French. They have a way of [[red underline]] serving an orange [[/red underline]] which is quite neat. A slice is cut off from the skin below till the orange can stand, then the skin is [[strikethrough]] cut [[/strikethrough]] pared off with a knife so that [[strikethrough]] fru [[/strikethrough]] [[image to the left of above text showing an orange on a small platter with bottom skin cut off]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 147 bare fruit rests on a kind of platter. [[red underline]] Easy to eat [[/red underline]] thus. Went to buy ticket for Rio and check my trunk had to pay about 40 cents extra weight but the handling costs me several times this amount [[underlined]] Sunday 28 ^[[March]] 1920 [[/underlined]]. Got up at 5. A.M. slept poorly last night, my bed smelling too much of [[red underline]] perfume [[/red underline]] of former occupants. Left for Rio with 7 AM [[red underline]] train [[/red underline]] called [[red underline]] "Rapido" [[/red underline]] Fast enough between stations but stopping at almost every station however small and at one of them "Cruzera" stopping for a considerable time - more than half an hour or so. There was one car [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] "deluxe" with numbered seats. - arranged French