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[[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Rio Janeiro [[/left margin]]
[[underlined in red]] 20 milreis [[/underlined in red]] is more than enough.
Am assigned to a plain but pleasant room
with running water and a view over the adjoining roofs to the [[underlined in red]] Corcovado [[/underlined in red]] peak. When entering dining room am hailed [[underlined]]
by [[underlined in red]] Lufty, the Goodalls, and the Leveys [[/underlined in red]] all former
passengers of the [[underlined in red]] Santa Luisa [[/underlined in red]], also met a [[underlined in red]] Diamondbroker [[underlined in red]] of Antwerp whose name is [[underlined in red]] Rosenstrauch[[underlined in red]]
or so and a certain [[underlined in red]] Colonel Brooks [[/underlined in red]] who is here the manager of American [[underlined in red]] Bank Note Co [[underlined in red]] which prints stamps and paper money for all these Republics. He is an old [[underlined]] Westpoint man [[underlined in red]] about 65 years old, full of information about the
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other So. American Republics where he has resided a long time. I notice that there are a number of [[red underline]] Germans and Swiss [[/red underline]] in the hotel and that [[strikethrough]] Ger [[/strikethrough]] the [[red underline]] management is German [[/red underline]] or  German-Brasilian, but about half of the guests are American or British.
Monday. 29. This is indeed a [[red underline]] a very pleasant situation [[red underline]] Goodall who with the others is waiting for a steamer to return to U.S. has enjoyed passage on the Vauban which sails only the 30 of April He tells me the only steamer on which I can find accommodation is the [[red underline]] Callao of the Munson Line [[/red underline]] and sails [[red underline]] April 28 [[/red underline]] He went with me to