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direction of Fiala, for use when we got where we wished 

 to take good and varied food in small compass. All the 

 skins, skulls, and alcoholic specimens, and all the baggage 

 not absolutely necessary, were sent back down the Para- 

 guay and to New York, in charge of Harper. The sepa- 

 rate baggage-trains, under the charge of Captain Amilcar, 

 were organized to go in one detachment. The main body 

 of the expedition, consisting of the American members, 

 and of Colonel Rondon, Lieutenant Lyra, and Doctor Ca- 

 jazeira, with their baggage and provisions, formed another 

 detachment. 



