Identifier: brazilamazonscoa00smit (find matches)
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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uiet. You notice,also, that the brown people avoid the sun, but the blackones seem to revel in it.^ ■^ One is reminded of Captain John Codmans observation: When a whitefireman on a steamer comes up from his watch, he always leans over the rail in theshade, where he can get the air ; but the negro fireman comes up at noonday, undera vertical sun, and throws himself down to sleep on a deck that would blister arhinoceros. Ten Months in Brazil, p. 8i. The Indians are much more suscep-tible to heat than the whites are. 46 BRAZIL. Many of these Indians have come from surrounding rivers,a hundred, two hundred, occasionally even five or six hun-dred miles away. Most of them will sell their small cargoesand leave with the return tide. The women and children willsee nothing more of the city than is visible from the water,or, at most, they will be treated to an hours walk about thetown, or a visit to one of the churches. And that is enough.They do not care to remain longer among the sweltering
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The Market Wharf. streets and glaring white walls. They long for their cool,shady forests, where they can swing their cotton hammocksby the water-side, and lounge away the hot noon hours, asfree from care as the birds are above them. Besides the small canoes, there are many larger ones, be-longing to traders, who make long voyages on the upperrivers. They bring back forest produce which they have PARA. 47 received in exchange for their wares. Here are bales ofcrude rubber, in flask-shaped masseS; as it came from themoulds; tall baskets of mandioca-meal, the bread of the poorerclasses; bundles of dried salt piraruai fish ; bags of cacaoand Brazil-nuts. There are turtles, too, reposing peacefullyon their backs, and odd-looking fish, and pots of crabs andshrimps. Not a few of the canoes bring monkeys and par-rots, but their owners are loath to part with these. On theAmazons all classes are extravagantly fond of pets. Formerly all the commerce of the river was carried on intrading canoes.

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