Brazil: Its Condition and ProspectsAppleton, 1891 - 352 páginas |
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... interest at Rio may be men- tioned the commencement , on August 15th last , of the filling up , by excavating the São Antonio Hill , of that portion of the bay extending from the Military Arsenal ( on the point below the Misericordia ...
... interest at Rio may be men- tioned the commencement , on August 15th last , of the filling up , by excavating the São Antonio Hill , of that portion of the bay extending from the Military Arsenal ( on the point below the Misericordia ...
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... therefor on the articles im- ported . The result of this treaty will be watched with particu- lar interest . C. C. ANDREWS . February , 1891 . PREFATORY . THERE have been so many political revolutions in xvi PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
... therefor on the articles im- ported . The result of this treaty will be watched with particu- lar interest . C. C. ANDREWS . February , 1891 . PREFATORY . THERE have been so many political revolutions in xvi PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
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... interests of trade and of peace . For a people who can have great influence in maintaining peace there is scarcely any de- partment of knowledge that is more elevated . Richard Cobden wrote a book to disabuse the minds of his coun ...
... interests of trade and of peace . For a people who can have great influence in maintaining peace there is scarcely any de- partment of knowledge that is more elevated . Richard Cobden wrote a book to disabuse the minds of his coun ...
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... interest until the anchor was dropped . An extensive city , sparkling in the morning sun , lay stretched at great length along the scalloped shore of the bay , covering sev- eral hills in its limits , and extending to the very slopes of ...
... interest until the anchor was dropped . An extensive city , sparkling in the morning sun , lay stretched at great length along the scalloped shore of the bay , covering sev- eral hills in its limits , and extending to the very slopes of ...
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... interest . " Andar hoje ! " ( " The wheel turns to - day ! " ) is a call from the lips of lottery - ticket sellers which greets the passer - by at many street - corners the year round . Rio seems a paradise for newspaper - boys jolly ...
... interest . " Andar hoje ! " ( " The wheel turns to - day ! " ) is a call from the lips of lottery - ticket sellers which greets the passer - by at many street - corners the year round . Rio seems a paradise for newspaper - boys jolly ...
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Página 352 - America," are all but unknown to the outside world; he spent months in the picturesque capital of Rio Janeiro; he visited the coffee districts, studied the slaves, descended the gold-mines, viewed the greatest rapids of the globe, entered the isolated Guianas, and so on.
Página xv - ... the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in Section 3 of said Act, the Government of...
Página 299 - Some days afterward the young men belonging to the different sitios agreed to go in search of the serpent. They began in a systematic manner, forming two parties, each embarked in three or four canoes, and starting from points several miles apart, whence they gradually approximated, searching all the little inlets on both sides the river. The reptile was found at last sunning itself on a log at the mouth of a muddy rivulet, and dispatched with harpoons. I saw it the day after it was killed ; it was...
Página 277 - Mandos so diversified. . . . Then the element of human life and habitations is utterly wanting ; one often travels for a day without meeting even so much as a hut. But, if men are not to be seen, animals are certainly plenty ; as our steamer puffs along, great...
Página 285 - Let any one who doubts the evil of this mixture of races, and is inclined,, from a mistaken philanthropy, to break down all barriers between them, come to Brazil. He cannot deny the deterioration consequent upon an amalgamation of races, more widespread here than in any other country in the world, and which is rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro, and the Indian, leaving a mongrel nondescript type, deficient in physical and mental energy.
Página 279 - The dresses," says Mrs. Agassiz, " were of every variety, from silks and satins to stuff-gowns, and the complexions of all tints, from the genuine negro through paler shades of Indian and negro to white. There is absolutely no distinction of color here ; a black lady (always supposing her to be free) is treated with as much consideration and meets with as much attention as a white one. It is, however, rare to see a person in society who can be called a genuine negro ; but there are many mulattoes...
Página 94 - In their country, the physical causes arc so active, and do their work on a scale of such unrivalled magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable forests, and the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects. The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide to bridge; every thing is contrived to keep back the human mind, and repress its rising ambition.
Página 94 - Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, is covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. Indeed, so rank and luxuriant is the growth, that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power.
Página 352 - AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA: •**• Twenty Months of Quest and Query. By FRANK VINCENT, author of "The Land of the White Elephant,
Página xv - Lard and substitutes therefor. Bacon hams. Butter and cheese. Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing. Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing tree schedule.