Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate: Letters Written in 1852-1853 Book

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CHAPTER V. BIO AND ITS ENVIRONS. FBTBOFOLIS TO FAZEKDA DOM-JABDIM.—MILHO-THBESHINO.—LODO- ISOX.—TIi:V Ficon THE BKllHA.—ANOTHEB KNilINKKH-r.VIIiF.— Thobny Palm-tbbb.—Banoho Bodebto.—Blate-dbove.— Mui.l- Dbotbs.—Fa/.i:mia Bknjajiin.—An Eneboetic Cui.tivatob.— TnroBB-wooDS or Dbazil.—Thb Viboin Forest.—Monkeys.— SKAKEB.—BIBD8.—TERMITB WESTS.—SECUBITT OP THB COUNTBY. —WINTER HEAT.—CROSS THE FABAHYBA.—OIQANTIO ABUX9.— THE PALMITO.—PHYSIOGNOMY OP THE POBEST8.—SAHD-KLIKB.— A BROKEN CUtTI'l'KU. — LABOE PAZEKDA. — WAK111NQ POB 1)11- MOXD8.—BETUBN TO K8TBELLA.—BTEAUINO TO BIO.—PLANS. I Wish you had a hothouse, that I might send you some of the orchids which grow in such profusion in the woods here; however this is not the season for their flowering, so I am not much benefited by their beauty—I have only seen three or four of them in flower. Well, I will continue my journal from the point where I left off in my last letter. You will be surprised to hear that I have been at Paraiba: however, aerial navigation is not yet accomplished in Brazil, and I have not passed from the south to the north of Brazil in a day or two. This is another Paraiba, commonly called " do Sul" (of thesouth); that which I came to see iw " do Nortc." This one lies on the banks of a river of the same name, a little to the north of Eio de Janeiro, just as the other is to the north of Pcrnambuco. The how I came to go there is on this wise. Tliis letter was never received. I had a particular wish to visit this Paraiba, because of its name, because it is on a fine river, because it is in the heart of the coffee country, and because to reach it one travels right across the province of Rio de Janeiro, going over the mountains, and because it is near the borders of another province (Minos Gcraes). Wh...