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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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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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Monkey Joes. hogs and boa-constrictors and electric eels, we have yet thenever-failing beauty of vegetation in the outskirts. Every-thing seems buried in green ; here is a ruined house, forinstance—a wonderful picture, enshrouded in flowering vinesuntil hardly a beam or a square inch of wall is visible ; arolling, tumbling, roUicking mass of foliage ; the very ruin 58 BRAZIL. seems to catch the infection, passing its last days in a kindof tottering hilarity. And so it is with everything on whichthis rampant plant-life can get a hold ; palings, stumps,heaps of rubbish, are all draped and curtained and paddedwith vines and weeds, till their rough angularities have dis-appeared under the soft curves, as you have seen a pile ofsticks covered with snow. The Monguba avenue has lost much of its ancient glory ;the trees, for some reason, are dying, and no care is taken torenew them. But the Estrada de Sao Jose more than fillsits place. There is something so wonderful in the statelysimplicit

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