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behind the stern and mast rakes forward
They have a painted curved stern. Canvass of sails is red. brown. (burned?)
In the restaurant at the station a hurried but good meal and good vinho virgen
The roadbed of the R.R is excellent from now on and train goes fast. fertile well cultivated country. the crossings on R.R. guarded by women guards. Lower Tagus many sloops with fore and aft sails, the latter with gaff but no boom. At the Portuguese station are agent of Portuguese Government came to examine my pass port which had [[strikethrough]] not been [[/strikethrough]] no Portuguese visa. and he tried to make me believe ^[[publicly]] I should have to return to 
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Spain to have it visaed Gave him 10$ and this straightened out the thing.
At the Avenida Hotel where I had telegraphed for rooms find room on 3d floor which means the 5th. There is an elevator but bears inscription "l'Ascenscue ne marche pas". Found out afterwards that it has been out of order since ever! Room is acceptable. Has running water. [[strikethrough]] Ba [[/strikethrough]] W.C and bath room is outside. Hotel looks run down specially below. - worn carpets on stairs. Charges with board 75 Escudos - $3.75 Life seems inexpensive here. I went to buy a glass of wine in [[strikethrough]] a cafe' [[/strikethrough]] one of the principal cafes and one of the waiters to whom I had a bill of 20 Escudos (or less than one Dollar) seemed