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[[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Therezopolis - Brazil [[/left margin]]
for wines etc amounted to only about 20000 or about 12000 Reis for one days board and lodging in this excellent private hotel.  Am told these places are crowded to the limit in summertime and that it is very rainy in summer.
Left shortly after lunch. and enjoyed once more the beautiful view while descending the mountains.  Bought two specimens of [[strikethrough]] orchi [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] blooming orchids [[/red underline]] along for one I paid 2000 Reis and the other 3000 Reis or about one dollar for the two!  Am told that [[red underline]] Therezopolis [[/red underline]] is even cooler and is more winter than Petropolis and that in [[red underline]] Nuovo Tribergo it snows [[/red underline]] in winter time  While waiting ^[[in Rio]] for the electric car to ascend to the hotel Internacional I noticed three men talking to each other in
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the street and over the head of each of them were flying two or [[red underline]] three insects which looked like mosquitoes. - Not so many years ago these insects would have represented latent death for each of them. [[/red underline]]
April 21.  This is a [[red underline]] national holiday  in honor of Tiradentes the first Brazilian Revolutionist [[/red underline]] The way they honor and remember [[red underline]] any revolutionist in these countries may have to do something with [[/red underline]] inducing others to try the same game. ^[[Took cable to [[red underline]] Pan Azueas.[[/red underline]] [[underline]] Marvelous [[/underline]] sight better than [[red underline]] Corcovado! [[/red underline]]  Well constructed]]
April 22. Visited again the [[red underline]] Museo Nacional [[/red underline]].  Am struck with the fact that [[red underline]] feather ornaments on the Indians here were decidedly more brillant and elaborate and different in design than those worn by North American [[/red underline]] Indians.
[[red underline]] Captain Hills of the Embassy