A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, EtcK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - 444 pagini |
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... Native cookery The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights- Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a native house- Musical evenings ... 89 CHAPTER VII . IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . My horse falls with ...
... Native cookery The dinner - hour - Spring - time - Voracious ants - Fine nights- Grandiloquent names - Casa Grande - Life in a native house- Musical evenings ... 89 CHAPTER VII . IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO CAMAPUÃO . My horse falls with ...
Pagina xiv
... Native measures - Long measure Square measure - Cubic measure - Wine measure - Avoirdupois - Diamond weights - Gold weights Notes on the Decimal Systein 299 300 COINAGE AND CURRENCY . PAGE Scarcity of silver - Description xiv CONTENTS .
... Native measures - Long measure Square measure - Cubic measure - Wine measure - Avoirdupois - Diamond weights - Gold weights Notes on the Decimal Systein 299 300 COINAGE AND CURRENCY . PAGE Scarcity of silver - Description xiv CONTENTS .
Pagina 16
... natives of the British Isles , except a few foreign servants and herdsmen from South America . Sheep - raising is really the only occupation . The sheep are killed for their skins , and melted down for tallow , the meat being wasted ...
... natives of the British Isles , except a few foreign servants and herdsmen from South America . Sheep - raising is really the only occupation . The sheep are killed for their skins , and melted down for tallow , the meat being wasted ...
Pagina 24
... native sugar , which is pale yellow and fine as flour . We left Rio at 5 a.m. punctually , and are now proceeding by the Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II . - the principal state railway - to the extreme northern limit of the line , which ...
... native sugar , which is pale yellow and fine as flour . We left Rio at 5 a.m. punctually , and are now proceeding by the Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II . - the principal state railway - to the extreme northern limit of the line , which ...
Pagina 35
... native as my guide , I rode along towards Brumado , taking observations all the way with aneroid and compass to enable me to prepare a sketch map on my return , and indicate the best route ( approximately ) for the railway . We put up ...
... native as my guide , I rode along towards Brumado , taking observations all the way with aneroid and compass to enable me to prepare a sketch map on my return , and indicate the best route ( approximately ) for the railway . We put up ...
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afternoon Antonio appears arrived August Bahia Barbacena beautiful Botafogo Brazil Brazilian breakfast breezes Brumado cachaça camp Carandahy Ceará church Cloudless day cloudy coffee cold cool Corcovado Dense mist dinner Dom Pedro II drizzle Dull Emancipation Entirely overcast Fabr fazenda feet five forest four garden Geography of Brazil hills horses Hübn hundred reis inches insects island João July June leaving length lightning Linn maize metres midday miles milreis Minas Geraes mist early morning Morro mountains natives night noon Organ Mountains Ouro Preto p.m. heavy Pará Paraopeba passed Pauillac Pedro Pernambuco Petropolis picturesque Pitanguy Portuguese priest province Queluz railway Rio de Janeiro river road round route São Paolo says Senhor Serra showers side slavery slaves species Sub-fam sunset sunshine tatu thermometer to-day told town trees valley walk
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Pagina 17 - Genesis. By the Rev. T. WHITELAW, MA With Homilies by the Very Rev. JF MONTGOMERY, DD, Rev. Prof. RA REDFORD, MA, LL.B., Rev. F. HASTINGS, Rev.
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