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I went by boat from Porto Esperanga to Coruribe. Rio Paraguay is 
a beautiful stream. 
[Slide ll.The west bank of the river] 
To the east Paspalum f asciculatum stretched almost to the hori^c n^ 
with here and the r^: little-islets of brush. There ?fere many small floating 
islands moving down stream* I sa-^ many herons, much like our great blue 
heron, but gra3r, vdthout the blue shade > vhite herons and jacares or alli- 
gators 
Gorumba is an old city and the country; about. is devastado* but 
I climbed a mountain, Urucum, 16 miles south^ one day and crossed into 
Bolivia the next. All the mosquitoes in Bolivia were there to greet me, 
and they enjoyed the visit. 
Returning to Sao Paulo I left for Goyaz stopping at Uborlandia in the 
triangle of Minas^ at Vianwapolis, the railhead in Goyaz , scSd Annapolis, cui-^c^ 
^Goyaz capital, and back to Uberlandia by March 28. Here I hired a man with 
a car to take me to Guy aba. There are no motor roads. Western Brazil heis 
started in using motor cars and Cc^inh&>s without stopping to build roads* 
Much of the old ox-cart roads are a comple x of ruts and gullies to 5C€ 
feet wide or more, saaetiraes eroded into deep chasms and arroyos as mucfe 
as 25 or 3C ft. deep. 
[Slide IE. Looking across an eroded gully— this was in 
Minas] 
It is appalling what oxcarts do to a cQUntry. llie oxen have to graze and they 
destroy all the good plants for a long distance each side of the bad lands 
made by the cart wheels* losing the road once we ran into a succession of 
penins'olas, Jose searched one way, I another^ and 4t took more than 2 
hours to get out. 
[Slide 13. Typical campo and cerrado in southern Goyaz] 
