I 
iit the n-soct tg?4a4 there v/ere several men in tiie ?/atei^ as ?vell as men 
and wonB-n at the oars. SW-^^^+w^' 
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[Slide J5; Rio Sao Louren^o] 
wa-s- Mgibf ^/tne iiie^eT very swift and I never saw such nighty human effort 
in my life — dragging the ferry up stream \iv ropes about the trees for 
an hour, then letting i t swing out into the current and actually making 
it strike the other bank. When ttiese men can i^^ork so hard and intelli- 
gently together it is impossible to understand why they don't build a 
bridge and roads and decent houses instead of living in such abject 
squalor* 
A day's journey back is Gen. Rondon's fazenda — Hondo n is the man who 
V^ok ilx-president Roosevelt into the vdlds and who nmrsed him through his 
dangerous illness^ due to an infected leg* Rondon is a i3oruro Indian, 
and his fazenda is worked by :t]^e^&e Indian's^ s%,t the mission at Hondonopolis 
nearby I was taken in, dirty and half-famished^ by the kindly rnit^si onaries. 
To have hot vmter for a bath, to sleep stretclE d out ¥ms luxury— and 
then there were waffles for breakfast* Except for that blessed intervsi 
I can't re call a comfortable moment in Matto Grosso^ but I had many happy 
ones-^mudhole s and insects, but. quantities of grasses, many I'd newr seen 
alive before. 
[Cost #550 for ZZ days, the most costly trip I ever made] 
It took 6 days more to get back to the railroad. Jose was terribly afiraid 
to drive on santa sextafeira (Good Friday) but I insisted. He was 
amazed that I didn't kno^/ it was the unluckiest day of the year^ It 
not that day but Sunday, the last day, that ray caraera with exposed films 
was lost. 
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