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From Concordia upwards they will get splendid 
fishing, and plenty of roughing it also. They 
would do far better there than on the Alto- 
Parana without a launch. 
Posadas in the Argentine is the port for the 
Alto-Parana, and you can reach it in comfort¬ 
able trains from Buenos Aires or Montevideo. 
Launches are rather scarce; for the reason that 
not many people go there. Remember that in 
South America nothing gets done until you go 
there yourself. You may think that your 
launch is engaged and provisioned and waiting 
patiently and politely for you with crew com¬ 
plete when you step out of your sleeping car; 
but you will find it is not. Everything has to 
be done over again. You would get annoyed 
were it not that everyone you meet is so 
pleasant. All the fitting out and provisioning 
of the launch vou can do at Posadas. There 
are admirable stores there, where you can buy 
everything from rifles to raspberry jam. You 
had better provision your launch for the whole 
journey, and not rely on getting anything on 
the way. 
In October and November it is hot, but the 
nights are cold, and sometimes the days also. 
Take thin clothes, of course, but on no account 
be without thick ones. Often have I been 
roasted at three o’clock in a shirt and drill 
trousers, and glad to put on a woolly jersey and 
tweed shooting coat at six. Your ordinary 
