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Thare were so fev? grasses I collected everything — ovea some snails wh^h 
1 boiled omt in drimdng cupt aM sent to Miss Ba^bua* fiiey tmniad 
omt to be a »sw ^scies* c^y^,^yJo^' — ---- qJa.^:^^ 
1782« Mora of 'uig desert, this is tlie trolley frcm the mainlmd to tli© 
turoine station--1781— a closer Tiew* Md this ~I81S — is Aatonlo piat 
<mx hmrnmokB^ mda coffe® la ilie morning aiid'senp#d*it,.with a oigarett® 
in M$ Moutti or bad^ind Ms ©art and wiso lad us mav tJ-i^ rooks to tl^ aaTe# 
He tha iioost peaoeEble perscm iiimginabla^ but' lie always a teife— 
(it wont mtn tlie coBgaoeira iiat| ^md vii@B I said I" vianwdfl^^ t^e Ms ^ 
picture he po^d-with Ms gim« 
1829* file oitj of 3aMa is on a beautiful little Mliy peniasuia witk' 
■palms e¥ery¥fc.era« fiiis is a iriew OT©r lie scmt^ii end to tiie 's€?a« I Imd 
fia"^ oolieoting here aad in saiadf sa^amaa ana marsiies to taa north* A trip 
into tiie imttrior;^ to JoaEsir© and Serra da Espinliaoo, mi3 aisappoiatlJ^ on the 
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wb-olSf thoufli I fomd sme inters s ting .gi^isaes not fomd-alsamiie-re® 
1 returned to Eio de Janeiro early in January* ^ith Pona M*ria 
BaMeira aiad i.hroiac.n the kiB-dmass of Pr« Caiii^OB i-'orto, of tha ^ardli]4 Botaaioo 
1 Blade a trip to Itatiaia^ tiie Mgh&st point in Sr^^sil* Brm the railrc^d 
wb' wmt thxee dag^a on liojsebai^^ ' 
ISSQ* The isiddla slopes lil:a .tMSf^-slcmder palms and tret femsf- 
and haagiag^msB#s of baiaboos® Hc^re -w^ had a thrilling slgMn Dom tha 
steep sl0pa below the trail ms a daife broim monk.^ mp a. palrii tree S0 
slander it swaged tMar Ms -weight aad a seoond rumiii^^- mp th© tm-nkm ^ fhey „ 
looted at UB and ahattared# The Beaomd olisibed d0:TO'mile the upper 0»# 
