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where we left our grips and purchased two small boxes of 
sardines and a loaf of bread. Finally the owner of the 
store and an unfurnished house adjoining said we could 
stay in the unfurnished house. We went to the upper 
floor, which besides the floor only had a roof over it and 
began to prepare for our frugal meal. The man came up and 
offered to bring up a mattress and said coffee was coming 
up. He also gave us a moringa of water. We were then in 
pretty good shape. He soon brought up a pot of coffee and 
an oil taper. We enjoyed our supper and retired. We were 
up at 6 A. M. the next day. The man brought up a pot of 
coffee as soon as he heard us up. He also said he was go- 
ing to Vespasiano, but that he had ordered breakfast and 
it would be ready about nine o'clock. We arranged for him 
to take our baggage back and leave it at a store at Ves- 
pasiano. We went out and made some more photographs and 
about noon we started back. The day was oppressively hot 
and we had the collecting case and my large camera. The 
distance from Lagao Santa to Vespasiano is, in my opinion, 
more nearly ten than four miles. This town, Pirapora, has 
a population of 2,000, practically all negroes. They are 
as slow as molasses in January. The rapids are opposite 
the town. There looks to be a fall of 20 to .SO feet in a 
distance of several hundred yards. There is no navigation 
above here except in canoes. We hope to be able to leave 
here Tuesday or Wednesday, if only to go a part of the way 
up the river. This will give us a chance to see other 
towns and sections and we can catch the regular steamer 
later. The way they feed a fellow in this country is a 
fright. A cup of black coffee about eight or nine, break- 
fast at 10:30 to 12:00 and dinner 5:30 to 6:30 and coffee 
or tea at 9:00 P. M. I can tell you a good home dinner 
would taste awfully good now. This is a big level river" 
bottom, used almost wholly for cattle raising, they are 
growing some rice and some corn. Corn throughout the 
sections we have visited is the principal crop grown. 
They grow thousands of acres of good corn, all by handy 
breaking the land, planting and cultivating is all done 
with a hoe by hand. The Sao Francisco River at this point 
at this time, when it is fairly high, is about one-quarter 
of a mile wide and looks quite a good deal like the Ohio 
; or Missouri. We were told Saturday that it takes twelve 
to fifteen days to go from here to Joazeiro, we have al- 
ways been told before tnat the steamers make it down in 
about seven days. O, well, we will do the best we can and 
make the trip so as to get home with as little delay as 
possible." 
On Monday April 13th. Mr. P. H. Dorsett and Mr. F. W. 
Popenoe, tanned by the rays of a tropical sun, returned to 
