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 It is, therefore, a great tribute that we pay to the aviators of the present.

My friend, a little confused, replies: — "It's not our fault, they had announced that the aviator Santos-Dumont was in town..."

I, for whom the time for flying has passed, would like, however, that aviation was for my young countrymen a true sport.

My most intense desire is to see true aviation schools in Brazil. To see the airplane — today a powerful weapon of war, tomorrow an excellent means of transportation — flying over our immense regions, populating our skies, where Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão first raised his eyes.

SANTOS=DUMONT

The Enchanted Morro do Encanto — PETRÓPOLIS — 1918