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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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ira-nhaSy no doubt, and acards^ and fifty other kinds. We findthe curious little Anableps tetropJithabmcs swimming alongthe surface. The eyes are divided, so that each has twopupils ; of these, the upper pair are for the air, and the lowerfor the water ; a most curious contrivance. The fish keepnear the shore, and however you may chase them, they willnever dive. * Standing on a high hill, I have seen a vulture make a dozen turns about myhead, falling with the wind, and rising against it, but never moving its wings atall. PARA. 63 It would be worth our while to follow up the Una in acanoe ; there are palms on the banks, and broad-leaved wildbananas, and I know not what of the grand and beautiful inplant-life. So it is all about the city ; the plants overruneverything ; they invade even the church-roofs, and rows ofbushes grow along the eaves. We can visit the Botanical Garden, where the not veryelaborate culture has only given Nature a better chance to
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The Botanical Garden. show her skill. And when gardens, and outskirts, and secondgrowth are all familiar, a little walk beyond the city limitswill bring us to the high forest, thick, dark, massive, wherethe few roads are mere paths, and one may lose himselfalmost within sight of the cathedral towers. Two hundred and fifty years have not insured his domainto man ; petty strifes and revolutions have stirred the city,but the forest looks down on them all and shames humanity 64 BRAZIL. with its steadfastness. A story on fifteen square miles ofcleared land. What is that to the leagues beyond ? I amhalf ashamed to tell it. Maranhao had been colonized by the French as early as1594. In 1615 the Portuguese, under Jeronymo de Albu-querque, dispossessed them, and founded a new captaincy,which included not only the present province of Maranhao,but all the Amazons valley. As soon as tranquillity wasassured on the coast, measures were taken to secure theAmazons region against the Dutch trading colo

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