The Modern Traveller: a Description, Geographical, Historical, And ...
The Modern Traveller: a Description, Geographical, Historical, And ...
J Josiah Conder
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Not long ago, the in- habitants of Rio were astonished and delighted with a far more innocent and not less rational exhibition, — 118 BRAZIL. some feats of horsemanship and tight-rope dancing by an English performer. , A Koman Catholic country, however, cannot foil to present other pubhc diversions in the shape of re- ligious festivals, processions, and spectacles. The royal emigration was followed by a prodigious revi- val and muitipUcation of ceremonies and performan- ces of this description,... " in which," says Mr Luc- cock, " a mixture of religion and pleasure takes place, not unlike our village wakes at their earUer periods." Dr Von Spix was present at a festi- val celebrated by the negroes in honour of their patroness, JYbssa Senhora do Rosario, " A chapel on a slip of land running into the Bay, not far from the royal country-seat of S. Cristovao, was filled towards the evening with a countless multitude of brown and black people; and the band of negroes from S. Cristovao, struck up a lively and almost merry strain, which was succeeded by a very pa- thetic sermon.
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