Brazil a Description of People Country And Happenings There And Elsewhere
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But, turning to things nearer at hand, here are objects which strike the stranger as curious and fascinating. Three don- keys pull a small street car. Thej" stretch and struggle to start the car. They go a short way and meet another. Six don- keys abreast now meet in a narrow street. The conductors howl at the animals. The little beasts pull and, passing, get their traces tangled. The conductors swear and tear to decide who is to blame for this tangle and lose perhaps twenty 168 BRAZIL minutes,... while the passengers sit hke "Patience on a Monument. " Then you come to the large theatre square and behold a mixed crowd! Sitting in bunches are great thick-lipp- ed, wooley-headed negresses with strings of beads around their glossy necks and their feet and head bare as they cry out their wares, some selling caju, a juicy fruit, some cangica, a nourishing drink, bananas, oranges, grapes, mangas and other fruits and confectionary. There goes a tall mulatto with a pot of tropical flowers on her head, with their long, green branches waving in the sun- light.
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