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cattle and horse browsing While train rushes thru the landscape a succession of tunnels with noise and then a rapid glimpse of a beautiful vista stretching over a success of ^[[green]] mountains illuminated by the setting sun. and little houses or villages in the winding valleys below. We are nearing the suburbs, as seen by congestion of houses. I note [[underlined in red]] more negroes or colored people than in any of the previous places [[/underlined in red]] I visited. Gray and white heavy clouds. cluster above the mountain peaks or hang in valley below. It is [[underlined in red]] pitch dark when I arrive at the station, [[/underlined in red]] nobody of the R.R employ speaks French and I have
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[[strikethrough]] no way [[/strikethrough]] trouble in knowing how to get to the [[underlined in red]] Hotel International [[/underlined in red]] which seems to be situated at quite some distance on a mountain. One elderly gentle man [[underlined in red]] speaks French [[/underlined in red]] refers me to an [[underlined in red]] automobile. [[/underlined in red]]  takes me up in the dark on a steep winding incline along the tracks of an [[strikethrough]] tro [[/strikethrough]] electric tram line [[underlined in red]] Car is a German Oppel underpowered, [[/underlined in red]] and takes the grade with utmost difficulty, water boiling in radiator, required replenishing, [[underlined in red]] Finally am delivered at the hotel. [[/underlined in red]] The chauffeur wants [[underlined in red]] 35 Milreis. [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] but I refer him to the porter of the hotel who acts as arbitrator and says