the one and a half million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and São Paulo and, last but not least, the Amazon River.
Then about Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, whites, the illiteracy rate — over 50 percent — and malaria.
Since I had some time left, I glanced through a genealogical chart:
John the Old, William Louis, Ernest Casimir I, Henry Casimir I, right up to little Margriet Franciska (born in 1943 in Ottawa).
Twelve o'clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and... whew, it was one o'clock!
At two the poor child (ho hum) was back at work. Old World and New World monkeys were next.
Kitty, tell me quickly, how many toes does a hippopotamus have? Then came the Bible, Noah's Ark, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
After that, Charles V. Then, with Peter, Thackeray's book about the colonel, in English.
A French test, and then a comparison between the Mississippi and the Missouri!
Enough for today. Adieu! Yours, Anne M. Frank
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1944
Dearest Kitty, I've never forgotten my dream of Peter Schiff (see the beginning of January).
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