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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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t miles, north and south ; low terra firme comes downto the eastern shore in a gently shelving sand-beach, withtwo little hills beyond. A few palm-thatched houses are scat-tered along the beach ; this is the settlement of Paracary, ifsettlement it can be called when the dwellings are often a * All this is very confusing in description, but so is it confusing to one who seesit for the first time. You get only the idea of an archipelago in a great sea of muddywater. t Named from an herb found here (Peltodons rudicans), reputed a remedy forsnake-bites and scorpion-stings. THE NORTH SHORE. 263 mile apart. We land, and walk up to one of these houses ;the owner, a white man, clad in shirt and drawers, comes tomeet us at the door, and very cordially invites us to enterand lounge in the hammocks while coffee is prepared. Weexplain that we have come to explore the country beyondParacary; meanwhile we are seeking a shelter for the night.On this, our host immediately places his house and self at
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Joshs Family. our disposal ; the luggage is ordered up from the canoe, andour hammocks are swung in one of the two rooms ; thus,without introduction and without a hint of payment, we aremade welcome to all that the place affords. He is a lazy, good-natured, thriftless fellow, this Jose daCosta ; living here with an Indian mistress and a flock of 264 BRAZIL. children, who are fed and clothed, God knows how. Theyhave their little plantations of mandioca in the forest, five orsix miles away, and Jose and his son go on fishing excursionsnow and then ; but I fancy that our supper comes from hisbrothers house near by. Never mind; it will cost himnothing, and he is glad in his heart to have a visitor. Weget bowls of warm, sweetened milk after supper, and a hardbiscuit that Jose has saved in his trunk ; at sunset the chil-dren come for our blessings, and kiss their hands gravely;the older people say ** good-night all around, and then goon talking. * Light the gentlemans cigarette, commandsJos

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