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and their contents are then peddled around at the different 

 houses. The famiUes showed the mixture of races charac- 

 teristic of Brazil; one mother, after the children had been 

 photographed in their ordinary costume, begged that we 

 return and take them in their Sunday clothes, which was 

 accordingly done. In a year the railway from Rio will 

 reach Corumba; and then this city, and the country round- 

 about, will see much development. 



At this point we rejoined the rest of the party, and 

 very glad we were to see them. Cherrie and Miller had 

 already collected some eight hundred specimens of mam- 

 mals and birds. 



