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The laad is flat with abrapt a?ed hills l^ In w^^meedows and streaitiborders 
I ibund great gra^irs'' higher than my head— a joy to find but terrible things to 
dig up, and interesting water grasses. I went tyday*R journey into th ssrtao 
+>,^ «-r.-?fi i Tit.A-rio-r'. snmetMn? like mrts of New^^J^^ 
The hospederia (hotel) at Bello Jardim^jfcis my introduction to the typical^ 
house of the interior, "che wells of mud bricks , built into a sort of lattice j 
of stout uprights and slender horizontal /ticks, the floors of uneven large 
bricks, end the roof of trough-shaped tjle. There i^ no ceiling in this type 
of house, the tile roof while shedding.%e rain, admits the air. There are no 
windows and at night thn doors are bolted shut. The partitions between the rooms 
are at^out 7 or 8 feet high, so thatylhe cool air, descending through the roof 
at night circulates freely. Mosqui4oes imve plentiful, but I always carried a 
net with me. This with my rubber 'poncho spread rubber side down, over the 
sheetless bed assured sleep. I t^iought that place was primitivebut I hadn't 
then encountered mud huts with/'dirt floors and no such thing as a nhair or 
bedstead. _/ 
I had letters to missionaries end./received much help and infonriation 
from them. The consuls, so far as my^experience goes, know only the coast- 
nothing about the interior. But missionaries travel everywhere and like bote 
nists do it on as little money as/posaible, and here and elsewhere they gave me 
information that saved me much time and trouble. 
