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Palm trees. Sp[[?]]er of [[underlined in red]] Auracaria [[/underlined in red]] Brasliens is rather small and decrepit. [[underlined in red]] Climate too hot here. [[/underlined in red]] Attendant tells me this is the reason why they have no specimen of Ilex [[underlined in red]] (Yerba Mathi). [[/underlined in red]] Save the Palm trees which furnishes vegetable ivory[[guess]] as a nut. From another palm tree which grows in the North [[underlined in red]] Palm wine [[/underlined in red]] is made and a liquor is distilled. (Liquor de Bouriti?) Noticed a few mosquitoes in the Botanical garden. These for there are the [[underlined in red]] only mosquitoes I have [[/underlined in red]] noticed since I am in Rio. This is specially astonishing in or around [[underlined in red]] Hotel Internacional [[/underlined in red]]  which is entirely [[underlined in red]] surrounded with woods and [[/underlined in red]] 
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varied vegetation. Situation of [[underlined in red]] Botanical Garden is [[/underlined in red]] magnificent. near the [[underlined in red]] Corconado [[/underlined in red]] and the bay in the distance. Walked up to [[underlined in red]] Ganea [[/underlined in red]] whence returned by train. [[underlined in red]] Wherever one goes here, there is a beautiful view. Rio has such an abundance of beautiful scenery that there is enough to spare to make half or dozen beautiful cities! [[/underlined in red]] Coming back met several hearses followed [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] by open automobile and flowers also two or three wedding parties also flowers and open automobiles [[underlined in red]] the only difference was no [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] coffin and hearse was a fine limousine. [[/underlined in red]] Here as in other roman - catholic countries and as in the East, poor