Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . ll night, huntingup strays, keeping the herds in rich pasture, and brandingthem every year. We often see these vaquciros gallopingover the campos on their wiry little gray horses, each with abright red blanket rolled behind the rough wooden saddle,and a lasso-cord hanging in front; their bare great-toes thrustinto tiny stirrups, and their hair streaming in the wind. CHAPTER IV. SANTAREM. IT is bright morning when we pass from the yellow Ama-zons to the black waters of the Tapajos. There arewhite sand-beaches here, and clumps of graceful javary palms ;to t
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . ll night, huntingup strays, keeping the herds in rich pasture, and brandingthem every year. We often see these vaquciros gallopingover the campos on their wiry little gray horses, each with abright red blanket rolled behind the rough wooden saddle,and a lasso-cord hanging in front; their bare great-toes thrustinto tiny stirrups, and their hair streaming in the wind. CHAPTER IV. SANTAREM. IT is bright morning when we pass from the yellow Ama-zons to the black waters of the Tapajos. There arewhite sand-beaches here, and clumps of graceful javary palms ;to the so uthstretches a rowof picturesquehills, flat-topped,most of them,and covered withforest. A prettypicture it is, withthe framework ofcloudless sky anddark, clear air is freshand cool as on asummer morningat home ; we longto ramble in theshore woods andaway to the hills. What may there not be there ? The mightycurrent of the main river has driven the tributary close tothe southern shore, where it forms only a narrow The Beach below Santarem. Il8 BRAZIL. Santarem lies just above, two or three miles within themouth of the Tapajos. There are rows of neatly white-washed houses, one and two stories high; the handsomemunicipal building stands by itself, below the main town, andat the other end the palm-thatched huts of the Aldeia areclustered about the shore. Nearly every Amazonian town isdivided into cidade and aldeia, city and village ; the formeris the modern town ; the latter the original Indian settlementfrom which it sprang. There is a little rocky hill by theshore, with the remains of a stone fort on it, but the wallsare all overgrown with bushes, and not a gun is of canoes are drawn up along the shore, and a scoreof larger vessels are lying in the river; the sand-beach islively with washerwomen of all shades, with occasionally awell-dressed promenader, picking his way among the dryingclothes. The church is large and showy, with two squaretower
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