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Title: Brazil, the Amazons and the coast
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919
Subjects: Folklore -- Brazil Brazil -- Description and travel Brazil -- Economic conditions Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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to the church treasury and to the poor. Aside from the churches and the custom-house, we shallfind little to interest us in the public buildings. The presi-dents palace is a great, glaring, barrack-like structure, look-ing out on one of the squares. Within, it is richly furnished,but with that stiffness and lack of ornament that characterizeall Brazilian dwellings. The episcopal palace is still worse ;jammed in among the surrounding buildings, it looks like awarehouse. It is a pity that the Paracuses have left their public 56 BRAZIL. squares the weed-grown wastes that they are. Only in someof them there are picturesque wells, and, of a sunny day,when our walks take us past these, we see groups of noisywasherwomen drawing water over the curb, and spreadingtheir clothes on the grass to dry. There are no water-worksaside from these wells. Water is hawked about the town ingreat hogsheads set on ox-carts and attended by rough-look-ing Gallegos* with red scarfs and glazed hats. As for milk.
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The Washerwoman—Para. that is carried around by the cow, who, with her bleatingcalf tied to her tail, is driven from door to door and milkedin sight of the customers. Of course, under these circum-stances, watered milk is unknown. There are a hundred other odd characters in the streets ;bakers with great baskets of bread ; negro women selling * A term of reproach, originating in the hatred of the Portuguese for the Span-iard, and especially for the natives of Gallicia. PARA. 57 sweetmeats, or pots of assai, or tapioca soup; porters carry-ing heavy trunks on their heads, and so on. Ladies buytheir dresses by samples carried around from house to house.Servants pass by with a dinner or supper nicely laid out ona tray : it is the custom here ; if you engage board with afamily, the meals are brought to your room. When we have done the streets, and the dirty littlewine-shops, and the animal store, with its monkeys and wild

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