Life in Brazil: Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm. With an Appendix, Containing Illustrations of Ancient South American Arts ...Harper & brothers, 1856 - 169 pagina's |
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Life in Brazil; Or, a Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the ... Thomas Ewbank Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
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Pagina 104 - ... around them ; the triumph of those who successfully threw the abeer, and the clamours of others who suffered from their attacks ; the loud shouts of laughter and applause which burst on all sides from the joyous...
Pagina 436 - Providence for human improvement, — and who does not rejoice in their honorable ambition and in the career opened before them ? It must be remembered, however, that no one people can be a standard for any other, for no two are in the same circumstances and conditions. The influence of climate, we know, is omnipotent.; and, from their occupying one of the largest and finest portions of the equatorial regions, it is for them to determine how far science and the arts within the tropics can compete...
Pagina 201 - Januaria (Joinville's wife), when sick a few years ago, vowed her "richest jewel" if Senhora da Gloria would restore her to health. Ton diamond brooch on her bosom is the gem earned and paid on that occasion. This wooden deosa has a splendid head of hair. It is the last of a series of rapes of locks committed on her account. When the brother of Senhor P. L a, a young gentleman of my acquaintance, was seven years old, his hair reached more than half way down his back.
Pagina 117 - Some slaves have been known to sell their 4 barils' for rum, and such are sent to the fountains and to the Praya accoutred as that old woman is." With a friend I went to the Consulado, a department of the Customs having charge over exports. Gangs of slaves came in continually with coffee for shipment. Every bag is pierced and a sample withdrawn while on the carrier's head, to determine the quality and duty.
Pagina 115 - Custom-house, where street-passengers have to run a muck through piles of bales, barrels, packages, crates, trucks, and bustling and sweating negroes. Here are no carts drawn by quadrupeds for the transportation of merchandise. Slaves are the beasts of draught as well as of burden. The loads they drag, and the roads they drag them over, are enough to kill both mules and horses. Formerly, few contrivances on wheels were used at the Custom-house. Every thing was moved over the ground by simply dragging...
Pagina 454 - Garcilasso was uncertain. He describes a cross of jasper or marble, suspended by a golden chain, in the Inca's apartments at Cuzco, and much esteemed. The Spaniards seized it ; and when he left his native city for Europe, (in 1560,) it was hanging by a ribbon in the vestry of the cathedral church. It was only a few fingers...
Pagina 67 - Lay people can not have the use of these. In fact, few persons, rich or poor, are actually buried in coffins ; their principal use being to convey the corpse to the cemetery ; and then, like the hearse, they are returned to the undertaker. Fond of dress while living, Brazilians are buried in their best except when from religious motives other vestments are preferred. Punctilious to the last degree, they enforce etiquette on the dead.
Pagina 67 - Brazilian dwelling is shut. The undertaker is sent for, and as the cost of funerals is graduated to every degree of display, he is told to prepare one of so many milreis. Every thing is then left to him. The corpse is always laid out in the best room, is rarely kept over thirty-six hours, and not often over twentyfour — the number required by law. If the deceased was married, a festoon of black cloth and gold is hung over the streetdoor ; for unmarried, lilac and black ; for children, white, or...
Pagina 454 - ... on which a fox or gamba is mounted, with a prey or young one in its mouth. The surface of the haft is dented, to imitate a cord, or something like the plaited covering of a whip handle. In this particular the engraving does not do it justice.
Pagina 452 - hollowing hammer" of ironstone, and one that might be employed with advantage by our tin, copper, and silver smiths. The groove worked round the middle was the universal device by which handles were secured to primeval stone axes and hammers, viz., by bending a hazel or other pliable rod twice round the indentation, and then twisting or lashing the two ends together. Blacksmiths to this day every where thus handle their punches and chisels. I, a box two inches long, one deep, and seven eighths wide,...