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this place. We spent a most enjoyable day here going over 
their farm of about one hundred and fifty acres. They are 
experimenting with apples, plums, grapes, pears, per- 
simmons, etc. The place is in good shape and things look 
pretty well. Early next morning, Saturday, January 31, 
1914, we boarded the train for Bello Horizonte which we 
reached about noon. Bello Horizonte is a city of 45,000 
to 50,000 people, the capital of Minas < It is laid out 
somewhat like Washington, D.C., with streets, avenues, and 
circles. I noticed in one of the parks here a very large 
concrete arch, made specially for children to skate upon. 
It struck me as a good thing. Enough of such circles in 
our city parks would afford pleasure to the children and 
tend to keep them off the streets and out of danger. 
We made quite a number of photographs here and developed 
them and those we made since leaving Lavras. 
"On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1914, we left for Lagoa Santa. 
We passed through a hilly broken country, similar in prac- 
tically all respects to the country we have seen prac- 
tically since, leaving Rio de Janeiro. We arrived at Ves- 
pasiano the R. R. station where we leave the train to go to 
Lagoa Santa, about noon. We secured a snack at a stand at 
the station, and after arranging with a negro man with a 
12 ox team to haul our baggage to Lagoa Santa, a distance 
of supposedly one league, about four miles, we shouldered 
our camera and started on foot. The colored man told us 
the road was crooked and we had better stay close to the 
cart. On top of the first high hill which we reached with 
shirts and in fact with coats dripping in perspiration 
(everyone wears a coat in this country, you can leave off 
the shirt, but you must have on a coat) we stopped to 
photograph an annonaceous fruit that was fully as large as 
a cocoanut. We also photographed the tree. By this time 
the ox cart was out of sight and out of hearing. We 
struck a good gait up the road, but after going about one- 
half a mile found to our dismay that there were three 
in place of one road and that they were about equally as 
much traveled. We were somewhat put out, but after ex- 
amining the roads carefully, decided to take the center 
one. We walked pretty fast for about an hour and fortu- 
nately finally came up with the ox team. We arrived at 
Lagoa Santa about five or six o'clock, and a deader town 
one need not want to see. To our dismay, or rather sup- 
posedly discomfort, we found the hotel closed and could 
not find anyone to give us shel'ter or something to eat. 
We knew there was plenty of room on the ground in the 
fields, so made the best of it and proceeded to get a few 
photographs of this town in the interior of Brazil, made 
famous by the botanical studies of Warming years ago. 
When too dark to take photographs we returned to the store 
