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t the others I had a glorious fire going against a big boulder and had 
dragged up plenty of brush for firewood^ but the wind blew furiously during 
the night and the sparks looked dangerous so I pulled oaiTthe biggest chunksn 
and flung clod© of wet grass on the fire leaving it subdued^ b«-t hoping 
it would be alive in the morning* But it wasn^t^and I caildnn get another 
st8rted-**every thing soaking wet. It rained continually. ')^In the morning 
we collected quantities. The dominant grass is Calamagrostis viridif laves- 
cens, much like our C. canadensis in habit. The men vmre to have come for 
us in the morning but did not appear till after noon when ^e were busy 
putting plants in press inside the tent* They insisted that we come at 
once to the hut — vvouldnU wait for us to put plants in press* But the 
plants were what we caiae for^ and neither of us was willing to abandon them^ 
so the men had to leave us, declaring vie*d lose our lives, to return for us 
the next morning* It was a terrible night, the ^7ater overflowing the trench 
above the tent and the wind whipping its moorings loose* Tlie men returned 
about 9 next morninst and we struggled up^through the rain. Mrs. Mexia 
said it was like the slope of Mt« McKinley. Half frozen^^ drenched, muddy 
and dirty, Dona Maria Kagdalena & 4 th©-hu % mat u^ith a basin of hot water 
and a clean towel and gave us hot milk. 'We stayed over the next day-«-anci 
didn^ t rain --and began the descent the following morning, pes^ng the 
night near the cave of fleas^ and next evening reaching Santa -^arbaia 
botani st had bem up the east aide before^ so I feel my grasses are worth 
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he climb, though I have only one new species, a beautiful Ichnanthus, 
After a fe¥days about Cabo Frio^I went to Vi^osa, where Dr. Rolfs 
has estab] ished an agricultural college for the state of Minas* The plan- 
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tation of TaraotogonO ' S kurtzil (the source of chaulmoogra oil) grown from 
seed collected by Dr. Rock^for the Department of Agriculture some yean 
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