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Title: Pioneering in south Brazil. Three years of forest and prairie life in the province of Paraná Year: 1878 (1870s) Authors: Bigg-Wither, Thomas Plantagenet, 1845-1890 Subjects: Paraná (Brazil : State) -- Description and travel Publisher: London : J. Murray Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: - theirplaces. The newly engaged camaradas marched on foot,their scanty equipments alone being carried by thepack-mules. From the Freguezia do Assungui wemarched direct to l*onta Grossa and thence to ColoniaThereza, a weary distance of nearly 200 miles. OnceI Avas unfortunate enough to get a slight touch of sun-stroke, which, however, was sulliciently i)owcrful toprostrate me hand and loot for several hours, and tostop the march for two days. In passing through the little povoaciio of Ipiranga, 202 Pioneering in Sonth Brazil. mentioned in the first volume of this book, -we weredelayed another day by the loss of three of our mules.Ipiranga had already got an evil name from us, onaccount of the number of mysterious disappearances of

Text Appearing After Image: •KlAO, TIIK MUI,i;-STF,ALKi;. animals belonging to the expedition, that liad takenplftfc in this neighbourhood. Ihere was a certain old nigger, by name Joao,who was coniMionly credited witli being the author ofthese otlicrwise unacconntabh disii]>po!nnnces. fii. IV. yoao the Mulc-stcaler. 203 AVlutlifr he was so or not, certain it is that a niuh,once lost at this camping ground, coukl never be re-covered except by the aid of Joao, who, on theseoccasions, always came forward and offered his servicesin the search, at the price of 5.S000 per mule recovered.If his assistance was declined, farewell to all chance ofseeing again your lost animals. A veritable blackmail was thus levied upon all passers by, though it wasimpossible to brhig the matter home to its waryoriginator. The accompanying woodcut, from a sketch takenby my friend ]Mr. (r. Selwyn Edwards, is a speakinglikeness of the original, who, in addition to his mule-stealing propensities, had a capacity for imbibingcachara, such

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