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''I'm angrily unhappy at the death of McSwiney. To kill a man with a face like that! Compare the faces of those who killed him!''

It's a brute of a world that the sun is shining on so brightly

I had contemplated spending the winter in a voyage up the Amazon, but abandoned it in favour of one down the east coast of South America. Teixeira comments, 29. 10. 20:

''Your new voyage is the more sensible and interesting by far. What's Amazon to you or you to Amazon? I pictured you and trembled for you, steaming slowly up that mighty river between alligators taking pot-shots at you with poisoned pea-shooters from one bank and hummingbirds yapping split infinitives at you from the other. You will be much better off on board your goodish coasting tramp''

 It interested me, he adds, 20. 10. 20, to read in this morning's Times'' that Brazilian stock has risen a couple of points at the news of your contemplated visit. I hope that Argentine rails will follow suit''

[A lady] when returning Shane Leslie's book,