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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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orLondon markets ; with him, also, the purchases must be amatter of speculation and calculation, for, during the oceantransit of from three to seven weeks, the markets may fluctu-ate greatly. Sometimes a high price can be looked for atan early day, and then the exporter makes his shipments bysteamer to secure a quick passage ; but, at other times, themarkets require delay, and sailing vessels get the preference.Some shipments are very large; single houses frequentlysend off eight or ten thousand bags by one steamer. So yousee all these streams centring around the wharves, w^thcrow^ding drays, and hnes of negro porters, and endlessconfusion evolving order; the sacks are tossed on at thegang-plank, and packed securely in the hold, each with its 538 BRAZIL. distinguishing mark and number, by which the cargoes willbe separated at the other end of the route. So the wholeimmense business centres in a few dingy counting-rooms, i* ^^ ^\^ ^ \^^N \ ^^ \\N ^\N^ ^v^-^v- ^-^ ^^^•^^^^^ ■^•^^^
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Weignmg M where American or English merchants sit coolly, and controla million pounds of coffee with a stroke of the pen. Rio and Santos are the two great coffee-ports of Brazil, THE STORY OF COFFEE. 539 and the three provinces of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, andMinas Geraes produce nearly all the coffee that is sent outof the country. But, if the story runs truly, the northernprovinces have the honor of the first introduction of coffee-plants. As is well known, the tree was a native of Arabiaand Northeastern Africa, but it had been introduced intoAmerica in the early part of the eighteenth century. Itis related that a Portuguese traveller, visiting Cayenne,about the year 1750, received a handful of coffee-berriesfrom the wife of the French governor ; the seeds fromthese were planted near Para, and from them sprang thefirst coffee-trees in Brazil. At one time, many small coftee-orchards existed along the Amazons, and perhaps there wasa small exportation from Para ; even now, a few trees

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