Jacarezinho, Outubro 19
1919

In the other room of this little hotel this very
warm raininy evening, I hear the endless monologue of my Brazile
ian doctor, storming and threatening, playing Jeremiah for the
the whole of Brazil, crabbing the politicians and giving advice
to the goverment,---'Eu digo com franqueza'+-- till the dull
circle of listening fazendheiros dwindles to a single man, who
will without a doubt suddenly find that he is the only one left
and taking that as a possible evidence of his om credulity or
lack of judgement, suddenly leavee- with pr, _Remigio scarce
warmed up to topic 5, which begins "Mas nossos caboclos nao 6ac ~
stupidos=- etc, | a

We arrived here today after a two days reide in one
of the dustiest trains I have ever been in, followed by four i

leagues of riding behind a native whose driving consisted of a

continuous straffing of four underfed mules, utterly disregarding
the position of the "troly" (cart) in the road, Before the lash

fell each time he roared the name of the mule who was to get ite=

"BRIOSO" { "PARAHYBA" | or "ZONAS"!--- and I was surprised
that they aia not know their names, I aot very fed up and was
utterly pleased when he nearly tore the back wheel off ona
wooden stump, and Miragays, one of my boys, had sense enough to
pretend he wanted to drive, and thus the mules were spared the
additional bad temper, The passage was interesting for the sight
of several lagartos basking on logs by the roadside-- a kind of
very large lizara about three feet long which has & very evkl
Look and lives on snakes, After being bitten by snakes it always
immediately repairs to @ certain herb in which it rolls and rubs
itself, to. return later to the banquet, The herb has been proved

on nuneroud occasions not to have the same effect when so used

by man, phen too I saw the almost pure white "ferreiros" a
bird shows the size of & flicker and with a sound just
like a blacksmith pounding the, anvil-- there ie. phe o5
sharp abrupt thud and ‘the persistent ring of the. maki.
metal efter, ae

This is a. “oountry of as great or greater vare +
fe by than the Benighted States, The change from one —s_—~
sort of hills to another ,from palms and bananas to pines —
and low ‘pushes is often sudden and quite complete, Yes-
terday for about a half an hour at sunset we were running

along among & lovely shiny sort of grass that was in the

 

mass ereen-gold, but at one angle caught the sun in a
light violet color, with the same glint that golden hair
will sometimes do, And suddenly again we were out. of that
region and in! among nothing but hill efter hill of the
deep green of coffee bushes, which are much more beauti-
ful (and this is no cringing tribute to the Anti-Salaon
League) as. a covering for hills than vines ever were, |
But I have a friend who writes me of nature--

 

and the wealth that I know exists throws the ‘paucity: of
his and hence my accounts of it well into contrast; per

haps you have the: samey~- boredom, on reading accounts
ez it. | ) . ,

There is a book by @ bird with the extraordin- :

ary name of Sigfried Sassoon, gotten out by Dutton, which

comes fiarly close to the Ware- and: should you ever have
ip about

the Glory of War, a few verses of Sassoon would do,
Dees at matter --losing your LOGS +. vee Be
~~ Bor people will always be kind, j /
. And you need not show that you "mind
“When the others come in after runtahig |
To gobble, their muffins and. egge.. ree

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occasion to- ‘take anybody aside and give ‘on a

 

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Does it. matter-« losing your si ght?.sex DAs

' Phere's such splendid work for the bilha;
And people will always be kind, 4 Bosak dug tia

-. As you sit on the terrace remembering .
And turning your face to the ight,’ unter

and there's: another which 4s still one toes sai + vee

 

alae tae ee arene pusiness ‘eyre* and I sémetings —
 

“wonder it the | civil War was muh of a war after Rte: . they

   

all seemed to enjoy their panies ehewe: ‘80, good God:

e ‘It is ‘an’ odd sort of ‘thing to do-+ to stick with

 

strangers ‘ditt you know them and then to know that you never
will know then at-.all, and to sfay away from acquahntances 80 —
long that you get to think of then as fixed impressions instea

. of wondering. what they are going to do next, I doubt if ree
flection has the virtues currently given "in the pulpit

and the press", I have reflected much and haven even been
fool enough to write people that I have learned a lot thus.
but I ‘think that das’ so-genannte Reflection
precede things than to follow then-- and. I doubt if I. shall |.

know anymore from heavy solitary "thinking" than from the

is more apt to |

 

= half-conseious day-to-day hunches that go with a. hectic Anerie
an existence at home, Perhaps yes--- but not a shouting Methodist
YES that drowns meaninglessly all cL esent, It has a very
bearish effect on the stock of friends one has; but they
unfortunately become scarce as well as valuable, and I
“shall doubtless know again the rare and rather fine feeling
_ thatil had coming home from France, ( which is considered
pathetic and melancholy by some ) that I cared a damn sight m
ore. for some people than they had reason to eare for me,
for I had had no substitutes the meantime, and they ahd had «
Jw put the ‘poorest. interpretation on it all,
And along with the caring for people comes caring
net. ah all for all the comforts of living} which I wish I
could : care for, I had infinitely rather @leep out on the ground
| Under this strangely dotted sky and sleepily outline the Cen-
( taup ¢ as it glows above a palm tree than to ‘fulfill the
3 /\ current idea about where and how. the Chefe of the: Rocka-fell
a Poondaish should retire at night, Manello Patatisco 1 (local
= \tor Per tht love ov Mike ) So I sleep out «- greatly to the
lass of local Prestige of the Rockafe11 Foondaish, But this

ae 80 much nearer to « a real job than I have ever had betere

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that xugxhug§gxuak I laugh aloud to thimk I might be answering

 

telephone calls as to milk formulas or treating neurotics
with bromides and 'tact' if I werent a free lance dow here

in Jacarezinho,

Good luck and Merry Christmas

 
i November 12 1919

Cresciuma 3% ye

‘eta to widens a rather ruinous Hasty Pudding

theatre. in @ very poor state of repair with many banks of school
ne scattered cox ee it, my camp bed in one corner and a bunch
of r talian women with crying babies wandering through and around
it, a fat little officious Brazilian doctor making physical exan-
inations and a gang of thunderstruck Itélians| watching me write
<a saying "ora ! Ora!" at each move of this personal machine,

A commission of railroad employees are gasping "Nossa Senhora *

 

at the Sight of such huge worms as the microscope Shows then, and
ie flies are acting as the only common denominator of the crowd,
»_ We are, ‘working in a deserted church and the motto that is painted
on the rough boards is " Adeamus cum fiducia ad thronun Dei",
With some little fiducia(if I must admit it) I went up to one of
the few coal mines of Brazil this morning and examined about a k
hundre@ miners---but it aid not have the appearande of the throne
of God--rather the tower of Babel, Polish, German, Portuguese,
Spanish and Italian being the languages nesessary to success,
- oe The coal is a fat lignite type--with much pyrites, but
4 all in horizontal layers and also without any gas at all, so that
the mining is very easy and with no hazard to compare to what we
have, The companies have’ been slow to get started and we are on
and in the front wave of surveyors and exploi ters--yesterday I
saw the foundations of one of the staions of the railroa# being |
built and the only things in sight beside the workmen and the “vores
were a blue Bran plan and: a Winchester rifle, The trains to this
 “aistrict are running, irregularly, with engines such as the General
Beadle built in Leeds in 1881 and other treasures of maleoordinated
: stteel which render as usual the virtue of Patiencia a mere ¥ie 3
confused
~than-ever trait of this peopleg When the trains dont :
run way always have the hand cars which are run x two men with
; long poles and they pole the car along at a really ‘sirprising rate
of speed, They can keep up with a train such of the way, and need-

less to say the hahdcars are ana much better than the cst

 

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travelling in the clean and fresh air,

An interesting wer I met here last night “Z a. Rumanian,

engineer who this time last year was a prisoner in Germany, He
was shot through the belly in 1917 and got well cheerfully and
apparently without much bother, ‘to get it again five times in
the legs. ‘He thought that I was a German and I thought. the same
thing of him so naturally we were very peasea to fini that

7 stature and blue eyes and a red mustache can mean other ‘things
in Brazhl, He is in great doubt about the future of Eurppe and
is one of the few minds I have yet encountered “lio sets a suffic
lently large value on the Bolchevist movement, It is amazing to
me’ that people who have been taught all their lives that the
Right will triumph in the end never atop to think that things
that last any time at all usually have some considerable value
and are not wholly bad----but I find many who think that there
is no advantage in Bolchevism at all, The Rumanian said that it
i was spreading just like Christianity--- a remark that has a strit
king flavor, Much of what we consider as important now will
be forgotten in the interest which Bolchevism will ‘aray to itself

in times to come,

Youve no idea what an easy social existence there is here,
There is no repression along our lines, One of my guardas re-
ferped to his amour propre as his character and I am inclined
to agree with him as I think it over, for there is no such thing
as self control, nor any idea of state service or the common good,
Work begins and ends when it pleases among the natives, and they
simply dont know what application to work as an affair of the will —
is or can be, My guardas are no end proud of the fact that they
are not as the others and are I think really grateful for the
discipline they have received,

Well, I must asian this drool and go back to mines, The four-
teenth member of a family of 15 has just come into the room to be
 @xamined, All Italian peasants at present 6 gaara here but, not
yet nnentiine Brazilian, I can understand the immigrant problem
better now that I have ween one, Te Alan, | ae

 

 
 

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men get Up too, - Dawn was very. quick== a lovely, elandy pink affair

ready and we waited and waited and maited till suddenly at 7.230

 

The table nas been clesred and to the music of a huge

Gernan music box, which will play the Wedding March from Lo-

hengrin, or two. Foust Waltzes or the march from Aida, twice
without any encouragement, I find a pleasantly long Brazilian
evening ahead of me and nothing exeittng to do but dodge the
millions of insects that arrive arpund the lamp every night,
The day wae typical, Last night the local chefe politico
e rather pleasant apoplectic Italian, who is distincly first
in the little Iberian village, promised us three horses and a

carroce for four .ersons, to go an 8 hour journey to a place

called Aramangua, of which I know really nothing except that

4t 4s low and hot and that we ought to be able to examine and

more or less cure about 500 persons in about five days, The

horses and the cart were to be ready to go in the coolness of
SAM, Muito melior-----ete,. In @ miserable dark at “bout

4500 Big, Ben went interni ttently mad, and mostly for the sake

of example I ‘get: up quickly and made enough racket to nake. my w« |
sath
among very bright fresh green palus, ite are quartered in. a. de-
serted chureh | where we have finished examining 400 in 6 days--

nearly a 100% infection, So it wae to the hotel we had to go once

more to wash! and to get our coffee, All. bags, and baggage were

 

a funny little cart turned up , of a size to carry 2 only ,

and no horses at all, So I had what Cannon describes as " ten

minutes fury" ( speaking mostly my native tongue), and arranged
for the stereoptican to. go on ahead and three of us to mais
here till we could get. conduieac, Set Bonini at work on the
Parana statistics and went off with Silveira to the mines,

‘There we wet the Mestre de jiine, Sr Comacho, a little
Spaniard. whe has managed. a French phosphate mine in Tunis and
mines in the Andes, He speaks French, Arabic, Italian, Spanish
and Portuguese well, enough to be articulately angry in each,

and who- is ar interesting fellows besides. having @ lovely
adonne of an Italian wifes she Was Always. at me with a basin

 
 

 

   
 

 

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of water , a ‘fresh towel sae good Par

 

Py while

I was examining the miners:. Indians Germans ‘Slovaks |

Italians Portucuese Spanish Poles Russians. and Brae |.

‘After we were throu;

 

zAlians, No other equal courtesy under such conditions,

“he showed me a picture of the.

“Andee which Lookea. $0 much like Pikes Peak. from a. P

hlace near Glen Eyrie !

We went down to the nbs

and’ ducked along the stoop-shouldered galleries where

wet coal was picked out by big. pale tired.men, of all :

« pebae work I ¢an recommend for inhumanity coal mine

ing:- but after all these men have it easy compared

with’ ‘the: miners’ in “the U, S, -- for there is here no

fire. damp and the seans. are all horiz

  

 

almoco I slept. an hour. and was wakend in

much the sane way . imagine people Go to Heaven if

that custom actually obts. ins rig

 
 

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More miners examined and then

 

it in the middle of
erfectly satisfactory realities eich as dreans YOM
uge and inescapable " DOUTOR GRREGY an
ww eyes upon another world,

thunderstorn.

which caught us in the middle of the matto and sowe

took off these useless clothes and had: half an hour

in the buff, Then back to eat and play the

musicker

and talk with Georg Jonescu,a great husky Rumanian

_ engineer who is a kindred spirit from having been

very much ‘more than I in the war,

Then too but tent

 

after three or four months among, only those to whom

 

raise ranges all the way from biscuits to, aubrosia

 

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and blame or unfavorable comment ae between atupidity and

and deliberate ineblence, eae:

“Ahout 28 Ich lometers from here there is a: packs.

 

age of mad 1 for met all the news “Up to aehaner: perhaps.
others don't ! Like old clothes nearly everyboddy fades
to & rather better but less vivid shade, I think it is
when you you return to them actually that the queer sotty
effect @ppears as if a part of them was covered over and
thus protected, The great speed with which communications are
cut id a great argumont for living in your ow home tom isnt
it? And yet somehow or other I like toxsnatch at kindrdd spire
its and try to keep.them instead of wearing myself dow or up
to a humdrum familiarity with « fellow townsman who in all but
houselots and subways might as well be 500 miles away, The peo-
ple I have know and liked and now dont see at all are the oly
permantnt fixtures among my acquaintances, Queer effect!
By the 27th we shell have examined and treated about 2000
men women and yowling children, an@ will be on our way to
the German section Blumenau and Fkarxkanapakzka Bruske, Then a
month in the mountains and then a month in the island of
sta Catherina,
Well I burble on «-- " Easy writing Sir makes damned hard

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1 cannot remember for the life of me whether I —

wrote you once before or not: my good intentions are of
such a vivid character that they pass at Limes for reality,
But at any rate I wanted to and now, having the chance while
people are not coming in very fast to be “exaniinéd-and treate
ed I'll take a chance on being a repeater, Tis at least better
than a 46h tinuciseosSiawe weed taping ieee clocks of late
and the lingo clings, 3

At present we are on a survey of this state to see
what fraction of the population has hookworm and how it ie
distributed among the people, I have five trained Brazilians

as helpers and & Baz doctor as my team, We have portable and

- at times insupportable. beds, railroad passes for anywhere.

 

that the RR. goes, ond the occasional honor of a special
engine of our om, and the wilds are ours for the asking,
We go anywhere that from a distance has the reputation of:
being a good place to find heavy infection and usually we'find —
it, Good-- we examine about a hundred people & day, treat the |
sickest, give & magic lantern show with lote of lurid and

forceful pictures: and sho. ‘em how to avoid the di wease in

the future, and later on if the place’ is valuable from @

 
 

- atrategic point of view there comes a gang of ten or fifteen

trained men nurses and a doctor undpr American direction

_ and the region is really cleaned up at the rate of about

 

“© 10002 month, Medical prospecting 1s what it amounts to,
ad 1% is” ‘pretty darn. good any °°

 

Day before yesterday | @ trip fron Cressiume to this

place up over eee low hills and down onto this: exbraordin~

 

ary smoothe pining, a trip on horseback beginning at 7 and -
ending ac 9 in the P in sunlight poisonously hote- but

with lots of exercise and diversion for all that, This is

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the road I saw in the adobe houses women with spinning
wheBls and looms going about our great-grandmother 's
business, We stopped in a ruinous little roadside store
for almoco which is an elevn o'clock breakfast and after
the meal the omer ‘siad that his wife begged a consulte
ation, After I had talked to her and arranged for treate-
ment, I agked him how much was almoco, With all the

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bucolic subtlety of wit that you can imagine he said " AH
Senhor Doutor how. much is your o@onsultation 7?" I told
hin it wasnt anythinge-- and greatly pleased with his ruse
the poor man said "Entao. precisa pagar 80 2 cerve ja"

(Then pay only for your beer),

Iife is delightfully: simple here, The hotel .
keepers daughter last night returned from a dance she had —
been to and eae into the dining room, 4 very pretty
little North Italian and shook hands with all the, guests
ina grave polite way-« but immediately. brightened up
when somebody asked if the dance was good, It was eight. houss
hard riding away from here+- at Nova Venizia, and was
a big party on the anniversary of \ossa Senhora de Boa
Vista; everybody from far and near, eight hours in the
saddle as & preparation for all night dancing !. Her 8
mother every morning comes running from the kitchen «
almost wringing her hands with anxiety about BY, COLL AM
and I have been no Turk about it -- it's much. better
than what an xX would get me at the Ritel And such Uae
va. jelly! And cheese, Yo HO, | | |

On this job ali round the State till March and
“then I suspect to the North-= the Bahia region, the Brazil
of the geography books, boas and parrots and monkeys and
politics, ” |
Gosh ! This time enno passado I was in Paris

having an extraordinarily agreeable leave---"and now

just look at the poor dam thing". <5 dhs Ec cat

 
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PM Geet | ’
‘Well it is a long cry since Sao Paulo where I
think I wrote you last or first or atk least once, Now I
have a wild ambition to write to a few of me old and hon-
able friends and tell ‘em what goes on,
This is in a town called Ararangua in the Sgate

of Santa Catherina, sufficiently removed from the ordin-
| ary cascades and whirlpools of progress for it to be merely
the rule to see old women seated on the floor of the houses
carding spinning and weaving their husbands and their ow
clithes and dyeing them with crude but beautiful vegetable
dyes, We are here on the usual job of finding out the per
centage of infection with hookworm and here up to the pre-
sent have examined in the three days previous 500 persons
and are well on the way to a hundred a day till our 809
are completed and our treatments finished, Thus wandering
on one week medical stands throughout southern Brazil I
have already spent 6 3 months and have the same amount of
time to go. After March I may go to the North, i. E, the
real tropics end see the Brazil of song and story, with
alligators boa constrictors and monkeys and politics ---
'n evrything. :

| At present writing in the Camara Municipal of the
town where we are doing our work and evry minute or 80 arrives
a new sick one--- the infection is close to 92% --- to have
me jab him innthe ear and punch his side a bit and ask hin
a few ddbboper ‘aucétreun and then send him forth wondering
at the sight of the first Englishman he has ever seen--we
make no distinctions between the English and the Americanos
here, They all have very red noses and red mustaches and
talk a very loathesome cutteral talk, There was a very am-
using but very pale little rascal in here yesterday with his
father and he didnt like me a little bit. He kept turning

to his father and saying " Papai, chega | Vamos embora !"
lachouta Wha They anh Bar vy.

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for which the translation is "fathers this is enough Sete
get out of here" But it has a funny flavor because. 'chega'
is what you say to a person who helps yew & tooo much meat
or beans---which is. frequently the case here,

Last night very nearly all night long I heard the wild
weeping of the father of the dona, of the hotel who was over
in aneighborly jail with senile dementia, weeping and or-
ating and yelling bits of the past history of Italy at the
top of a very a very hoarse voice, He was not a prisoner--
they have not the instincts for restraining eachother in
Brazil that we have~- he was just there because having him
in the house is a bit thick fot the guests, But Gosh what
@ hellish noise, SACRRRRAMENTO!

This is a high alluvial plain, the town siiidetlidinas
of pretty pink or yellow or robin's egg blue plaster houses
scattered round on one vest big absolutely smooth lawn of
bright green grass, No roads at all. Of course it is beau-
tiful and the distant sharp irregular mountains in a big
semicircle and the sea at our backs-- well I have only to
remember Commonwealth Ave in November to know that is mean
to go any further . But dont forget that until. you cut
your thumb you never knew what it was for--- and until
you go without speaking English a month or two and without
letters for a month ---you dont. know the advantages ef
Boston even in the winter time, I look forward to hearing

a word from you for this same reason and in the meantime a

 

very Happy New Year to you,

 

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It is nine o 'elock== the local equivalent of our mide —
sit aie ~- and I am finishing a long and rather busy aay, Next to
my cubicle & young Ttalian is having occasional epileptic con-
vulsions as & result of a brain tumor, outeide an Old man in the
mhni cipal jead 4g raving at the top of - ‘& very hoarse voige=-the
second year of a senile Comentia, I have Just been through & bog
or two on a visit to a man with a breken ankle,a woman with endo-
carditis, & man in the last hopeful stages of TB, and another with
spastic paralysis, ~~- Leaving four others $411 tomorrow, Today we
had a hectic time with 350 patients all treated to the cure and
twas the darnedest oo I have done since the walking wounded at
the 10 6.C,5, | A
I am doing what the old dadies think is a tremendous iy 4
lot of good ! Welle I know it is not hat ’ but it is a confort ae
to know that I might be waiting like a hungry spider in: the U.S, .
to do the same and then very aoubtfully to charge for it! I have
elven up the idea I once had that medicine is an honorable affair,
Why is it creditable to get. up at night, to have all the fleas”
that onee starved on & Brasilien, or to make long explanations to.
& neurotic ? A golfer cannot. legitimately pity himself for the
difficulties that make the afternoon worth while, In other words
this job is too good fun to be creditable, The big difficulty is
that the brain tumors stay brain tumors and the old man raves on
wo» IT somethmes think that Jesus Christ had it pretty easy with
his miracles--- it is no fun to have people brought twenty miles —
to see you .and then to be helpless, But the other worl which I
know is worth while makes a fly wheel to carry On by ==-+ and 80
it gees on, at times with great pleasure,
Of course the pleasant part of today Wes getting soue
letters fron home, One from you which wa8 on the edge of starting |
3 out for an A,M, and even in “poe of the indecision ever 80 auch ee
cheerfuller than the ones when 1 you tirst om home . -¥ dont. vant “eo
‘to. Anhibit them at all but the pas

 
   
  

the least real to ne at the tine=« whereas FOU bat:
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and genpurten Wi2sonz " And he went unto his om and

 

his om received him not"s--it reminds me of that a
ae. gives me the same sensation, as I had oce-
remark to English 12 (I dont know how Cope oe
| ede into it), the game sensation you have at the a |

the Mass, Gen, Hosp. — when after staying up all. night te ak
trying to save. the life of a case of. bichloride: pois
gay, the ignorant family yneacy « at the novelty

and the atrentousness of your efforts decides that.

 

 

you. are experiuenting and that it is somehow wrong,
and proceeds. to take the perilously sick one home--<

you know to ate. But they prefer the know ‘to the

 

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: ov At takes a g
‘plan. instead of &, custom ¥ when there 4s a crisis at
hand, All good Will and ignorance~~- on the part of the = ‘hy
people in the U.S. and | Sophisticated ignorance in
Puen ns Os among, our Senators, | My God was there ever
such a& dearth of bra ins mixed with | charity! I aa pored
at the whole ‘tusiness, and @ good ‘bead, ‘more than bored
shen I think of what ‘used to be taking place in the o.
C, ‘8, But ‘how little aia : tnagine what Ypres must gh
been in' 15 from reading about it in Brookline---4t WAG
Ypres. that made me understand, - euppove it is the “sane

with Lodge and co, 5 think that at 4s prepostrous to

treat a President with sullen regentuent and distrust in
March when American solidity of sentinent eould have enabled hin
AMO dictatea decent terms, and now to accuse him of being
weakly overwhelmed at Paris, We have had our fling at
being Saviours. I never knew a successful | Saviour ee

was afraid of losing himself: Aneredulous Agnorant timid

  
No-one ever tries
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o¢ Rete.z ~personal. Aberty Af rout se
“If you havent. there is always ¢ » governent. job-or @ relative ~~ anes ee

   

re the- money.

ih live on--- and the intere i: thing is- that when no- one Se

makes on .effort to progress there is absolute apathey Lo= |

 

wards any triat that 1e uuprogressive,-If 2 child of eight a. Beri

does not. care Le take the remedy . — then. the Hather.cays

| that, the meni ino N20 - GUePanm and there, is not even the implied
_apelogy of a shrug of the shoulders, They put people in jail
only shen 1t 18 not profitable in the real senae of the word

 

 

to have them out. “And you can do what you wk like, ches jek

Look. on and talk=-= but more than this mOtniNG « And. balit

 

An. educated man, ho cannot harangue is. NOWHERE, ft have heard

 

 

 

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Mt, doc Remigio noua. forth on the cause of the failure of

hee = pine etl STS i - ee een ee ie

Brazil to take a leading place in ‘the world for 45 minutes |

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aba stretch-- fairly sreeching at, the politicos and their

- faverltism-s- and. the next day, he hints that. we must certain a

 

ly doug survey. of ‘Tuberao, for, it. As. the hone. tom. of ‘the.

head of. the, local Health. Dept, and. Dr Ferreira gust keep, hie
~ Local prestige... sar dae ga

Last night after it was good and @ark” _ went: with: We.
Padre down ‘through a bog and ‘through countless fence” ‘rail gates cos

to a ‘easual, little Sea” house shore” fared a," aarty: of) lamp in

 

 

: the usual sooty chimney-lese yaltenen of the caboclo, "a Senhor

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Tiburcio!” shouted the: Padre, "sim Senhor!"" from a timid wo-
an who. appeared in he ‘doorway, ™ "Ah © padre-- pode entrar" iy
& trea liferess voice, “We went ‘in* ‘stooping and there on a’
ped in the inner room “lay an “elderly ‘man wi th his right foot
wrapped up in a vor aan" s ‘rea ‘and piaek waiat, very dirty and

“soaked tri whiskey of the local evil snelling ‘sort. ‘There= were

butts” of patiia cigarrettes everywhere end with an agtle énap. ae

 

‘of the wrist: the old man caught erickets as they sallie@ from =
- the mud- chinks in- the” wall and-dash- them to the far corner- +
—the- Pode: where with this repriuana pany Series ante the mud———

   
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.. they use here, Then. while.the hoarse..shouts. of a friend try-

chinks again, We unrapped the foot and there it was, broken

bn-two places-- the mete-tarsals- and very much swollen, He

had taken the wieght of a falling horse in a queer position,

I had “ commanded to be constructed" a right angle splint

which the padre had with hin, but there was no padding.

"Mariazinha ! Venca!"*said the man in a low voice, The woman —

ate

appeared and opened with here teeth a seam in a new quilt
and there was plenty of crude cotton, After it was fixed up
and we had had a desperate search for three pins all ove
the house, Mariazinha was told by her hasband to bring a

chicaras of cafe-- which promptly appeared: and we all took

gome, It is always strong, and. frequently very well made,

but this was queer for the taste of the crude native suar

ing to catch one of the Haaxsé Cavallios for the morrow

‘became progressively nearer we talked about some of the

- neighbors until it was obviously useless to nope for a horse

from Sr Tiburcio and so whe padre‘and i gow up and left,

And all quite without rancor--- because quite without
ambition--- a funny country, A long walk through the bog

in the blackest sort of night you could ask for-- to the
house of an old German with a ruinous heart and a very large

and mean family, Thence on to another family etc ete at the

hour of eleven I was good and weary but possessed of the

prospect at least of horses to get out the next day.
The next day it rained cats and dogs and we set out
at eleven instead of four and went all along a big river

pank with crude fishermans huts with distaffs and spinhing

wheels in use by countless old crones, and an old Xaron of

a native to take us across the ferry. Thence on riding till.

six on rather a smooth little single footer, Thank the lord
I am getting more used to horses; anatomically and psychically,

Pardon my wearinessofa the flesh. I must to

ped depart for it is 5 am we rise on these days of
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