= Sept 21 . Vagsteriay iF > ‘€3 2s iis vA . 2: 2 at: 8 EAT) F : Fr the country of prairie senses. three day gambling oartien:, pot sonous whiskey, sombreros | and high boots, real men and rare women and infinitely rarer ladies, painfully _ large knives and pleasant little ill-concealed pistols, It has been worth the, leagues and leagues the ailigencia jolted up ever the Serra from Imbetuva where I left my gang working, up through Majolinho, Prudentopolis, ond yp the aountain road i te. Chico Russo! s house at Bananal on the summit of the pass, add 2 finally down to Guarapuava the uornin. of the third day. Five "horses. pulling us continually cocked by. the driver, Sitting next to me ‘Was Done Franca the Senhora of Bento de’ Barros, ; genially enduring my Portucuese, or givi ig Titanic accomuodations to the sleepy, well mannered 15 Ones illegitiuate son of her highly re- deacted husbané , It is a bit odd here at times in that particule | BDawe Theses for degrees for instance are always marked by "0 e., filho lecitimo" of s0eant-so, o . i ; ‘Much. of the e time I was out of the dilisencia to see the brilliant butterflies, the flowering trees and ihe hurd ie birds or beijo flores, eigat or: ten shimmer tii; and darting over one tree, And then at nig it in front of Chico! & _ the. ee ar die their fires in tre dust near onotr horses _there you would think there was te G but. to stare Up into the sky shere Southern Cross, and sec but woe jie sien the outlines of these big pinheirose se eachother BS against the sity « as se Sees ; ek xha Saat at: Lat i “ed ’ é 7 8 frontierenen bu crop, and then suddenly we swung: out haay spring horizon. cattle ‘soda ee - with 8 frsh eas ses and sti}l more of the big e of the~ ee ri #3 © Pod ete ddles silver mounted It ic a low swee sort of town. scattered white laster houses ted robbins egs blue or a soft terra cotta, or egg yellow, or pink, It was more or less of a Brodie to come out from the rest and try my hand at negociations alone, but I can : talk well enourh to manage and I was enxious not to spend : time and money if we are not going to he able to get fig .. f moco, There was a_ ; little o1d disnified guiet man who looked at me through dirty gaasses with the piercing simplicity of all nearsighted a Christians, and received my story with all the modulations : of feeling between en initiel professional endurance of a 7 total stranger, on towards a kindly but sort of broken zeal for the undertaking, as if to say, " Ah yes ay bey, atte a ap ge , -_ ee Ps : ieee 5. Neel rome ¢ Bais oN +in4 Sa [Arye fe c i “ate C ; pie LO} mt to) ae Ss ae 2” ms wD Gay we shall not see the Kinedos | Ax al bal? Slocks, came to a big yard sti hendclapping kharexgame (which is the disnified way of announcing yourself here) there came a tall showing the swelling... ete of leprosy, He was very simple and gentle in his manner and when he said that the only thing he could do for his family was to leave them utterly--«1 got muy first + first hand impression of wha’ 3 leprosy Do you know why they Cany SS aAnyvAi ins cone nere?r The LOW 4 baked Wi tn Sprasy, “ Guess at it ---it is the _wont stand for the segregation of thebr lepers, : SE ae ia ~~ ___On Saturday the bepers who | have the courage to isolate | themselves can come to town 7 | and beg from horseback, a 3 waiting with patient uncerte “ | | ainty, and tapping against the : l\4) pommel of the saddle for esnolla at work for the Commission 4 4 § §cetting the infection rate and the location of the cases here in Brazil~= but tan boss nae Setualy he cannot cover it and Tam getting a local list ready for hin, ster's and there sure enough was @ picture of Robert E Speer, and a photo- of hideous antique architecture with the later Greco-New York fresh beauty of a dormitory given by some bankers widow in meme ea a a es se FS Fes & 7 , ae * % ae lor table was ¢ any oO Lie in which Mr Kolb took especial delizhte- I suspect that a missionary is a special and subtle forr Being a wanderer is like being an artist-- it is all the easier if you are a bht out of conceit with your day and seheration, But 01d Kolb's enthusiasm for travel and variety fair made me gasprenali | the low passion. for travel that ine fests x. cypsy' S hearts: with none of the eypsy' s blithe Seis erance and ateentanae of the world as it 4s, of all things they® for almoco at the Ki'see I nearly collapsed for.I had seen none for a long time and gosh you know I was brought up on the stuff, It was pleasant, Just after the meal was fin= ished I felt sort og an —— wags ag the neurasthenio ladies describe to you on Ward C at the i \ WAY UF re SANNA ‘ ny 61 M,G.H, and suddenly realised Compauson eo , that we were getting Bibles and Hymn books given us by daughter One, Then began dauchter Two suddenly to Sing @ _Moodey and Sankey hymn with Portuguese wobds---such an odd flavor, But Iwas certainly floored when the 01d gentleman aid a sort of a Ilifnesota shift and embracing his aged wife began to pray in a strongly English accent in Portujueseq-~ ” -Nosso Pae no Ceo nao esquece as criancas desta familia," Work goes well: but the number of infected is not vory large and I shall not be likely to return to this art of the world until the day when L go to see the Qedas ~ de Santa Marta or the sete Quedas de Iguassu, seventy degues Guarapuava October 1-1919 lg Here we are about to leave this section of the wild west of Brazil and are waiting the carroca to t.ke us out | three days jourhes: te Fernandez Pinheiro a station on the rail- road, where by the Grace of God I may find after a days journey _ some mail, and a haircut and a bathtub, and a bank and all the other sources of strens-bhh -eincluding a letter fran iM Frain, We were to have left this place if it hadnt rained--. but it clouded up about an hour before gezz. almoco and rained ---fe Gods how it Rained! All of which means that the automobilist ga cold feet and refused to go == so we shall have to take the stage coach tomorrow and spend three days going what the machine could do in Half.a a day, So I am back at the vacant house we have been using and hauled out pajamas and box of butterflies from | _( what a typewriter!!! ) ail sui tease and am preparing to spend another @ night, Well just a year 220 today it was raining miserably --near Ypres and we were recieving 600 to 1200 wounded in twenty-four hours and I was cutting dom khaki coats and Slitting up khaki breeches and arrenging, blankets and trying to get pulses on pulseless Tommies and arranging men in the order of iupending collapse : for admission into a steaming busy operating rooue-= 80 I think I connet -compiains Gosh what a sixsecks those were! An interesting old. caboclo er native Brazilian came to the door late lest night with 4 little bey in tow and in . the most scroupulously polite way asked if ne could for a mouent enter, He came in and with nae rough home nage: straw hatin his hand he explained that he had just heard of our being here and had come 20 leagues on foot with the paizinho on a mule to be examined, He had not had much to eat he said when we asked him about it, Now & league here is 4 English of ‘miles, Martie, so I was really touched by faith like that : ond we examined hin right away and found him loaded with hookworm and he went away aurmumring "Deus-lhe pague, Senhor" (God will pay you) cured of his illness, That is the sort of thing I like, I used to get bored with all the : Sa of the Hospital treatment-- "discharged relieved . 0.P D," when T knew they werent much relieved nor discharg. to a very happy land, But if I should meet this old bird a month. from now I could heve cnything he hase= and that febling is pure luxury for me, i get a bit bored with the me@icos who insist that they are the salt of the earth and get-very angry if they cant have their way in handling people---it is @ luxury to be in a position to aid and take care of people if you are built that way-- and if youre are not built that way medicine and nursing were poor Jobs to get into, Nao e? which is Portuguese for Aint I right Mable? "Tem razao" which is . a Portuguese for "Alecrnon youre on", | sg Pe . Bais Americo. Bonini a boy of nlineiuaieen des the survey x is studying a book of Rng¢lish whbth claims that the student ee will know the language in thirty days, One of the sentences which is a gem reads "Al emm gou-ing tu bed; dro de car ‘'tennz ; Uer i122 ior eldest sisa"tar",. 7 Well Martie, if I find a letter for me from you at Ponta Grossa I will write you a prompt reply and if I dont ig will write you anyway -- s0 theres no way out of it fxan for you. I would 1ike insted to be saying the following from a t "Englez ea 30 dias" 'aud morn ‘ning mad di'ar frend ai ema ver "4 gled tu si hu! . Camm inn, Ai du not leig tu breq'fasst co alounn' ennd ai uozz eqss-peq' ting iw. KS , ° ; ; | ae 7 me . 'me cualouer dia cs 7" a t = ius 1a 7 eee | : eh Ba akg , Tube tuve October 5 1919 A cat has just torn by with a screaming senhora in pursuit » oO _ and the evenings chop in its watering mouth, Long lines of jing- ling wine red prairie schooners are careening dow the ruts of mud near my window and the Sponholzes are chattertng a mixture of German and Portuguese on the other side of the blazing blue door that shuts my suite off from the sala of the hotel, The door is blue the frame maroon and the walls pea-green but so used am I now to such things that I. do not notice it, It is Sunday and we are stalled here because there ida strike on _' @mong the railroad employes-- and being a 5 hour journey from the railroad and a days journey away from Ponta grossa, my ; destination, I am halting a day ir the hopes that the strike may be settled and I may thereby save a day and about a hundred milreis by going dow to Fernandez Pinheiro with "ay two detached men and all our baggage insted of making a weary drone all the way by carveca to Ponta Grossa, The rest are there ahead of me waiting to go on “to Jaguariahyva-- but God knows when we will get there-- telegraphing inane Brazilians and expecting them to have ordinary reactions is indeed experimental--- and "good administrative parctise"---like nothing on earth, : The past three days I have been’ on a stage jourhey out fron Cuarapuave., ‘Part. of the time it rained heavily md the rest of the time I ceught butterflies to ay hearts content while the cerroca dwindled: and dawdled along the heavy road, ‘Here in Brazil there are more beautiful and highly colored soe barboletas than exisb in all the U.S. put together: I think I * have i5 different varieties from two mornings only. I am going to go into it for a bit on the side and keep then carefully: they are very beautiful indeed, The day went rapidly chasing them, Down roads almost blodd red, trees deep green, ferns, new birds and trees in bloom---truly as Smillie wrote me I have by far the best survey yet thet any of us haws had to do, But &* at has been 2a Long, time since I have heard from home in any way and it is true that without 7 someone to compare notes with and talk to travelling 2 becomes a little stale even the best of it, I remember ch the same thing was true in Europe in 1911-- so I do not consider that I am in very hard luck, a The revelation of divine truth in the Sweden- borgian sense of. the word has taken place with ree gard to these Brazblians. Darling in Sao Paulo told me Swedenborg's definition of revelation "Revealtion io an obscuring or clouding-over of Divine Truth", And so I can make a revelation of Brazilians, The “thing about a Brazilian that is peculiar is that from the ordinary point of view they have no repressions- - whatever, Such a thing as self discipline is unknowm _ and. hence Lt is that frequently they seem and in effect are perfectly useless and foreign absolute- ly to our way of thinking. It it more to their abe sence of repression than to anything elee that I would lay the extraordinary lack of expression in > this country--- they are almost wit out art of any kind --- among the people itself, You cant buy any manufactured beauty. that I oan remeber w, heving seen, Just the way the U.S, was but perhaps worse, And in fact there are a godd mahy comparisons of the same sort. that can be uade between Brazil ' x and America of 50 years ago. . ; ca Bed : ae “* : 2 es 2 ae eis es ee ae ‘ ae See we — ase epee, nS as ainly chee te read it ee You needed worry about not: “writing | an old ae = en ae came » to us ‘TT ahve’ your. letter of guly 20 here with me and =: was certad& ee me man , I have lots of evenongs fréé with nothing to do snd a iarge admiring crowd ‘loke the present one to watch it me do it, whereas I can well see that you have a, darned hard time to keep awake at night with. ‘the flat all culi of - ‘nothing but bed and books ana wild I ever see the thing agin) - a bath tub, What an odd thing it is to erop, out of sight com a pletely. of. all ‘the English. speakers and thinkers — I mean just. folks) and not _ see anything that has a natural appearance from one weeks end to another, You little realize how many_ familiar things there are in Keokuk until you have been three weeks in GUAT 8 DURTR.« : Thanks for Siew Nation, - expect it: wit] be in Ponta Grossa_ when E get there--whenever ‘that will ‘be, It will be a great Pleasure to: read a bit: or English again, But just as it is a Ss:pleasure to go back to English it certainly is a pleasure too - to keep Seine forward ai Portuguese---] am on the verge of be- | ing aris to express shades of- ideas instead of broad inaccur- acies, And naturally that is a great pleasure, I was able to wring a nagered mare eg Wat of the Camara Municipal in Ka a ‘cuarapuava without much aitfioultyltor 1 me== God knows they - os probably suffered), The verbs are the difficulty especially , esc the subjunctives, But it is a curiously loose and fluid ton- a sue and but very few people in the world ed cadre! tt correctly SO everyone is tolerant, “Tolerance is one of the chief virtues - of this land,, whieh see absence of any yepresston< | ; : i ; . ¥ oO wom : bc _ noice caplet - One of the finest Sights r have seen here lately was a with the finest sort of manners a bow and a request that. ee = oe os ie sacs we would do a te * tA % ‘9 ~ a oe ty hin a -¥ eh wD . 5 - ia che W di Lk b-— examine Maat a ae AS dodedaleer abn de = “”~ £2 Lice TT B 2 G hy YY C3 ort a ee ee ap 8 - eset Bann tt oth ad four, English mil ea oie Ss Ot cl it Deus-lhe pague a worms come al tims tn” be i Cr, you realise that a a ll a i ae €S—-—- and wnen you saw * - = a fe wn > 794 rl aad aC. -—= aue ana eeTi~A he wnoen | Wiaa = on: 1004-40 legua here . —- a now many - — ee ee you heard \ QW yt ay you) 3 ‘ TATA a ' ES * ¥, oe 1 - - Tn ‘i LY > =~] ~t > vT) ‘ “ 4. 1. . ry and wren y ou knew that he had had almost no LOLS ie aA. Pot 4% a2 aa Ne a 7 -— o> or % & } ” eat all of that journey---you'd agree with me, a. a ee 4%. onto? he Ak . was treated and in about a montn he ougnt to be 3 rye S 3 O ci ., no <3 cs h eo we gS a ASAIN @a& SUrOng as fl fs S € » “te » " . % Ae a } of? > , ~~ eee m 3 me, +" I enclose a picture of a very good sort of oung Brazil dM & C Sa 2 +} Cai 4 +n Tront of » akin Lan cy . ‘2 the e MR blew rr? 7Tyry Y ” te “ ae 7 £ erman who has all the tte from @ cuia and a Sponholz, Hote Local chaleira T he professor is giving "music" lessons to the ‘pent little daughter of Senhor Santos fof the hotel of that name here in Ponta Grossa, while I sit out under a rose covered arbor ak waiting for my train and a chance to get out into the fiekd again. It has | been some time since a letter to the President of the Company was directed your way, an and a good deal has inter- venec of one kind or another, in the meantime. Instead of getting out of guarapuava in six hours in an automobile, there came heavy rain and we had to take three wa. A to it in a very uncomfortably jolty carroca, This got us to the railroad Just in time to run into a strike which further held us up and ‘then after we had gotten a little work done in Ponta Grossa and were all ready to go North for more, ‘my guarda had an acute belly-ache which seemed so much like an appendix that I had to stay behind and see him through which has taken ‘two more days, He fortunately turns out “e be sick with nothing more than an acute abdominal erippe--if my old friends the clinicians will permit the term-- and I an by the contrast of what might have been very thankful, oe rT remember writing at least one letter to Mar jorie from Guarapuava, which perhaps you will have seen by now and so I will not waste any time on telling about it. ‘The trip out was in spite of rain very amusing for it cleared up the second day and I had a splendid day of butterfly catching and walking along the bright red roads among pinheiros and bamboo thickets and herva matte with the carroca dawdling behind and really nobody at all near to disturb the birds and the butterflies and the spiders and all the rest of the solitudes citizens, a I was delighted to learn from Father’ S. letter that ‘he has started to browse in Portuguese, because in sending him two news- papers from Guarapuava I had bet on just exactly that move and thought that when he got to the words Doutor Alan Gregg he prop- ably would be able to read at sight for a spell, ae really is a very easy tongue to read and is supposed to be more like Latin than the other Latim tongues, — From a standpoint of customs and ideas these people are beginning to be comprehensible to me, They abhor effort and unless in the heat of the moment the educated classes do not seem capable of it. They do not know what self- direction i is nor are they acquaintances with discipline--- in the schools ‘the teacher with the shrillest loudest voice triumphs by vibtue of it only. They are mystified almost by the un- canny ability of the Americans to be practical and to the. point--- and somehow or other their highly estimated virtues seem to be suggest two of their own words always to me suadacoes and homenagem, The first is an oily sort of Slop-over in the way of greeting and means but very little as regards constancy or loyalty but a great deal in the way of pleasing and ceremoniuus attention. Homenagem is not translatable, but is the outgrowth of the fact that they camnet have any common intellectual and at times any spiritual interests with their women and have as a result to spend it @ll upon their men friends-- which is homenagem as far as I can see now, I wiil admit I dont feel sne of this --but the impression is certainly strong. But what country and what Nabure! Gosh it will be a long time before I can forget Rio Harbor and when it seems as if I were beginning to do so I shall try and go there again — to renew the delight of it, Her too it is wonderfully good country and I hope someday to get to the Iguassu Falls and the real west of the state to gee. its life, It is modified by the fe@ling that it is not my country and never can be but as never failing interest it has few equals in my experience, And my experience is growing .--- I will admit that it would take several napkina rings to keeft all the names of the n places I have been in in the past half year~-~ even the teh a day inter wals . This has been a typical day-- typical of the sort of work that will be coming my way in alt probability Tor the nest three months, Here we are in Jacarezinho, on the 2t of October--here six days but with more than 900 people treated to an examination and more than 299 treated to a bastante dosagem of chenopodiun, We aivexed after two days travel on the R.R. last Sunday, aad lt is now Saturday, and it was not hard to realize from the very first that the neopae, hewn really have hookworn, and not only have it but areextremely anxious to get rid of it, We have not had such copperation,since the Itapema survey, Monday, no Sunday was election day, and Remigio and I wander- from one local authority to another explaining what we wanted to do but apparently in vain, for they were all preoccupied with politics, We met the chefe politico but he was drunk both with power and pinga and it seemed for a while as though the day was wasted, especially when it began to raine-- and that meant that the cinema would not come off till Monday and thus we might have to wait till Tuesday ‘for the use of the hall--0 Cinema Radium, But we did see a few tall and husky fazendheiros who had come to the elections and they took some of the eee and promised to advise their co2onios tom be examined, | Monday after waiting from 8 A.M. till 12:30 finally the trole or buckboard of SR DR Silveira arrived and Bonini and I went out to a perfectly beautiful coffee fazenda where we stayed on the front porch of the Big House and examined hemoglobins and spleens of about a hundred colonos--many husky smiling little Japanese, One Jap woman of 18 had a rather a thin little baby she etimningly with the intention of saying 2 “What had we better do in this case?" and after explaining to her what to do for infantile trou- ble such as the kid had I was not especially surprised to have a sudden swarm of Japs all with kids of just the same size and app earance, making the same curious’ noises, Olio Ricino for the en- tire colony! And a handsome negro girl of 18 sitting patiently with a very swollen foot that the cat had bitten some three days before, I fixed this up with a great deal of pleasure in the variety it gave from the everlasting apieen payer tion and hemoglobin taking. : The next cis I was ready for an early start to the fazenda of Major Infante Veira, but the horses didnt come till quarter of eight, When | after a perfechiy beauti- tui ride we finally got \e there I was more than re paid for there on the _ Bide of a big red hill, | with deep green coffee bushes in perfect lines | running up and away on every side, was a group of mud huts with the usual masto of Sao Jose floating over the sqalor--- a large print of that well known and useless saint on cloth, which is stretched tighly on a frame as if to pe embroidered, but is instead swung on a@ rusty hinge at the top of a tall pole, and thus prevents the colonos from all ills including. by force of reasoning, Hookworm, A kindly travelling _ bank agent who is interested in the region made the jour ney of 16 miles with me and was my secretary in the hut while we examined about a hundred of the natives, and the only difficulty was a setting hen that kept having to be throw out of the clinic because she thought her nest was in a pile of reeds at my feet which is by court= esy here aalled a cama or bed, Then there was & dog fight in the bedroom---but I am getting'used', and almost for-_ fully typical | of the country. He told me of that " cruel phase ” got about it, The dogs are wonder- = fully natural in their behaviour _ here, Nobody thinks of throwing them ia of anywhere; at the cinema Mon- day they were there in great numbers - and behaved just like people at the r See | a 1 the opera-- before the show began — Walking round and round and seeing | and sizing up all the other aogs, | and when the show began watching it | for a minute to make sure nothing : unusual was happening, and then | fa P falling asleep, I rode home from Major Infante's — after we had had coffee three or four times at the @ Big House, And on both sides of the road huge fallen trees lying untouched es the fields, charred by the fire that is the only way to conquer the matto here, but coming up in regudar rows in 411 this confusion was fine young coffee, They lack only capital and healthy labor to make 200% to 300% the years profit on an investment. I never have seen such evidence of fertility. And where there is no clearing it is all cool and shady and fragrant deep forest with strange birds calling ing the depths and a frog screaching much like a streetcar on an unoiled curve, Tuesdays work was finished by some letters and a good anount 2 sleep while the Brazilians talked indefinitely out on the sien Wednesday I went in another direction out to ouro Grande-~-- riding and talking to a very handsome young fazend- hiero named Sr Jesuino Jorge da Rosa who in many ways was delignt of the stranger " eu acho que foi um Inglez" who sadid that Brazil is a great country in size in riches and in its natural phenomena small only in the type of men it produced, To which I violently and promptly disagreed, much to his relief, | Se ee We took a roundabout route stopping at o at a sugar mill run by a few caboclos where I took a picture of the oxen truning the huge wooden rollers that pinch the stalks of cane and squeeze out the juice whic runs down to a distant distant trough where it is scooped out and finally boiled down into rapadoura or cane sugar bars, These are the pictures I took of the process, Coming home in the dusk Tt chased for quite a distance on horseback a huge thing called @ lagarto, which is a cross effect between a lizard and an alligator ‘this one was about four feet ‘long and ran very ewiftly like a mechan ical toy straight down the road, not daring to try the low but sttep sides of the bank--like the Irish section who ran down the trakk be- fore his first engine on the theory LRA Mult Br "If Ay couldnt bmatethe baist on th livil how was Ay iver to bate him rrunnin up hill?" I didnt catch up with my lagarto,he made a sudden swerve and crackled away in the underbrush, The are very interesting anatomically because their ear drum is right on the surface and quite trans- parent and you can see the bones all in place and funtioning. Also the glottis sticks uo into their mouth like the end of a speaking tube, instead of being almost out of aight. _Jacarezinho Just: back from a Fazenda , from examining some hundred pretty sick laboreres ons. thear families and. arranging for their subse- quent treatment, It was all arranged that we would leave at dawn--- a baner and I, and cover the distance on horseback before the sun got #32 hot, He has just started a fazenda going and is very anxious that we examine and treat his laboreres, Herewe are in the times that the United States was passing through _ in the Coloriial Period--- the taming of an untouched wilderness, ‘the planting of timid plants of corn in between huge logs of charrde trees, the costly encounters of bare feet and rattlesnakes, the use of the powder horn in relation to the evening meal --- and the enor- mous profits from hand iia else has served man before Well it wag arranged for dawn---~"bem cedo"-- and I was ready at 5:50 but the Light. esck fog which alds so in travelling, had more than burned off when my large white mule hove in sight at 7 0 ‘clock, Out we went in the clen eakly morning, along a deep-red colored road --the earth varies 'tween maroon and actual purple--- with perfect- ly magnificent young coffee bushes in long deep-green rows, running as far as you can see or at least to the thick wall of trees and vines that is the untouched forest, When we got to his land we examined two very pallid women with hemoglobins of 45 and 50% . They lived in small mud huts and with & raft of children equally pale lived on the floor principally of the houses, Then up a hill anda along &@ 5 kilometer stretch to a larger fazenda where a coffee hulling machine was roaring over the last arrobas (of a cousin who had no mill)of the season, and the Fazendeiro Major Infante was Supping his after dinner coffee in a miserable room crowdea with flies, He was as usual very kindly and hospitable, After almogo we went. up to the colonos settlement, the Ove rseer léaned out of the window of his hut and blew on an old cow horn. You could hear the echo up through the deep green hills , f followed bg the answering shouts of some seventy. to a haundred trabalhadores, men women and children, tho trouped hoes sheepishly to the hut and I began taking their hemoglobins, and feeling for Spleens, wile tie enter handled he question cards for meg To- morrow we shall know who has hookworm and tomorrow night riding out there again I shall spend the night and treat at 6 A.M. the next day, I feel many times that I ought to explain why I picked Brazil of all places to work in and hookworm of all diseases--- but when a crowd of 150 sick lines up infront of the laboratory in the morning and you know they are going to profit by the trea- ment, the best thing is to let the explanations go and just write that t am in Brazil and let it go at that--- and the travel and the new customs and the strange things Ill try to pass on from time to time,