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A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
practice in travelling one learns to improvise the conven- 
iences for work almost without the accessories which seem 
indispensable at home. Opposite to the laboratory on the 
other side of the entry is a room of the same size, where 
Veranda and Dining-room at Teff^. 
the gentlemen have slung their hammocks ; back of this is 
my room, from the window of which, looking into the court 
behind, I get a glimpse of some lovely Assai palms and one 
or two orange-trees in full flower ; adjoining that is the 
