23 July 1947 Wednesday

Anchored in Rio harbor at 5 am. Sugarloaf and the city were on the port beam. Customs came aboard and checked our papers about 7:30. A launch took us and our bags ashore about 10. At 11 we passed customs with the help of Walsh the Brazilian passenger. We couldn't make ourselves understood. An old negro from the states assisted us to the railroad station and on to the train for a good price $15. After purchasing our tickets elders to, Hilton, boehm and I rode a street car around seeing the town. first it took us into a residential district filled with small dirty shops. Then it took us to the Waterfront close to the market. There we saw the fairies, airport and market. At the market we bought fruit parentheses oranges 3 cruzeiros, bananas to cruzados in parentheses. at 6 we got on the train. The seats in our car were new, but the car itself was ancient and made out of wood. At first we were powered by a diesel electric engine, but as soon as we got out of town we got a steam engine.