ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
comes from abroad. The rolling stock of the Company is 
excellent in every way, quite up-to-date, and kept in good 
condition, almost too luxurious for the kind of passengers 
it has to carry. 
It is principally after leaving Campinas that the 
scenery of the line is really beautiful — wonderful, undu¬ 
lating country — but with no habitations, except, perhaps, 
a few miserable sheds, miles and miles apart. At Nueva 
Odena the Government is experimenting with Russian 
and Italian labourers, for whom it has built a neat little 
colony. After a time each labourer becomes the owner of 
the land he has cultivated. I am told that the colony is 
a success. 
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