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,
