elephant to a
flea; but in this particular case it was applied to insects, such as
_carrapatos_, maggots, or parasites, which might have entered the wound.
Having done this at considerable length and care, he proceeded to tear
off with his nails the sore edges of the laceration, after which he
inserted into the gash a pad of cotton-wool soaked in creoline. That was
the treatment for the first day. The second day, the wound proceeding
satisfactorily, he inserted into it, together with his hand, a whole
lemon in which he had made a cut, and squeezed its juice within the raw
flesh. The amazing part of it all was that the animal, with an additional
bath or two of salt and water, absolutely recovered from the wound and
got perfectly well.

The Redemptionist monks had a fine vineyard adjoining their
monastery--the only one of any size and importance we had seen since
leaving the railway--and also some lovely orange groves in a walled
enclosure. They had built a mill on the bank of the stream. Most of that
beautiful valley for miles and miles belonged to them. The town of
Campinas--not to be confounded with Campinas of Sao Paulo Province--had a
population of 600 souls.

When we left that place the next morning, again we went across beautiful
flat stretches of grassy land--several miles long and broad--regular
tablelands, at an elevation of 2,700 ft.--most wonderful pasture lands
now going absolutely to waste. Plentiful streamlets intersected those
lovely meadows at a slightly lower elevation--merely a few feet--where
the water had eroded itself a channel. Those streams were generally
bordered by a thick growth of trees and entangled vegetation. We stopped
for lunch at the farm of _Boa Vista_ (Belvedere or Fine View), so
called--according to the usual Brazilian way of reasoning--because it was
situated in a deep hollow from which you could see nothing at all!
Another more rational name which this place also possessed was Bocca do
Matto (Mouth of the Forest), because it truly was at the entrance of a
thick forest extending to the north.

We went, in fact, from that point through densely wooded country,
although the trees were of no great height or size. The ground was swampy
and sloppy, most unpleasant for marching, for some nineteen kilometres,
until we arrived at Goyabeira (elev. 2,700 ft.), having covered 56 kil.
100 m. that day--not at all bad marching considering that we could not
change animals and we conveyed all our b