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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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ficou : which we may translate, as Mrs. Agassiz has done : * Who came to Para was glad to stay ;Who drank assai went never away. It is well, then, for us to learn how this famous viiiho dassaiis made. In a dark little shed at the back of the court, two mulattowomen are rubbing off the black pulp of the berries in greatbowls of water, crushing them vigorously with their barehands, and purpling their arms with the chocolate-like juice.After the first batch has been rubbed out, the Hquid is de-canted from the hard nuts to another lot of berries ; these 44 BRAZIL. latter being treated in like manner, the resulting thick soupis strained through a wicker-work sieve and dealt out to theeager customers. Yes, the Americajios will have assai, coin assucar; so thelittle shirtless son scampers off after sugar. Ordinary cus-tomers at the stand are of the lower classes, who drink theirtwo cents worth of assai with only a little mandioca mealby way of seasoning. In the forest, where sugar was scarce
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Tne Assai Stand. and the fruit plenty, I learned to like it quite as well so my-self ; its brisk, nutty flavor is rather spoiled by the sweet-ening. However, our new-comers may prefer the civilizedside ; so the sugar is added, and we dip our moustachesinto the rich liquid. Even the squeamish ones empty theirbowls, and begin to suggest to themselves the possibility ofentertaining another half-pint. Now talk no more of sherbet,and ginger-beer, and soda-water ; hereafter we abjure them PARA. 45 all, if we may but have our purple assai. And observe—asMr. Weller has it—that its wery fillin. One can make arespectable lunch of Assai alone. Back of the market, by the water-side, there are otherpicturesque scenes. Here are numbers of canoes drawn upon the shore, the larger ones with a little cabin of palm-thatch or boards in the stern. The Indian and mulattoboatmen, for the most part, are selling their produce onshore, and some of them, no doubt, are getting beastlydrunk on the proceeds ;

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