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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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he little open shed where farinha is prepared. Half adozen women and boys are cleaning the mandioca as it isbrought in ; the tough outer skin is easily separated fromthe softened inner mass, and the roots are piled in a greatwooden trough, the half of a hollowed itaiiba log ; here theyare grated on a board covered with sheet copper full of nail-holes. Francisca in h^t fcsta dress may be pretty ; but asshe stoops over the grater with a root in each hand, sheaffords a too-powerful reminder of that detestable northern 382 BRAZIL. machine—the scrubbing-board. Her bare arms and blackdress are spattered with the whey-Hke juice; her rebellioushair is just falling away from the confining comb ; her brown face, glowing with perspiration,gives the lie to our ideas of In-dian laziness. Meanwhile, MissLizia is rubbing the grated massthrough a basket-work sieve, toremove the larger fragments ofwoody fibre ; then the mandi-oca is ready for the next stage—straining in the tipiti. This is a long,
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narrow bag,or ratherpipe, wovenfrom stripsof palm-fibre ; thestrips run di-a g o n a 1 lyaround thebag, so that Straining the Mandioca. the CaoacitV can be increased by simply forcing the ends together, caus-ing the elastic sides to bulge out; in this shortened conditionit is filled. Now, if it is hung up and drawn out forcibly, themass within will be compressed and the juice will run outthrough the interstices ; in the same manner a farmers wifestrains whey from a cloth bag. To increase the pressure, alever is passed through a loop in the lower end of the tipiti;a heavy stone may be attached to the lever, but our brown AN INDIAN VILLAGE. 3^3 operator finds it more convenient to sit on the end of thepole ; the juice streams out and flows into a pan below.* A small portion of the poison still remains, but it is veryvolatile, and will be removed by the roasting process. Thefitriio on which this is done is a thick earthen pan, six feet indiameter, supported by a circle of abobe wall, wit

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