New geographies . can cities. Ithas much manufacturing as well ascommerce. 2. Brazil Brazil is the one country in SouthAmerica that formerly belonged toPortugal, and the Portuguese languageis still spoken there. It is a much larger country thanArgentina, being even larger than theUnited States. Yet it has Area and popu-less than one fourth as many ^^^°^inhabitants as our country, and of these,less than one half are white men. A large part of Brazil, including much ofthe valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, iscovered with dense tropical for-ests, through which one can The tropicalscarcely
New geographies . can cities. Ithas much manufacturing as well ascommerce. 2. Brazil Brazil is the one country in SouthAmerica that formerly belonged toPortugal, and the Portuguese languageis still spoken there. It is a much larger country thanArgentina, being even larger than theUnited States. Yet it has Area and popu-less than one fourth as many ^^^°^inhabitants as our country, and of these,less than one half are white men. A large part of Brazil, including much ofthe valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, iscovered with dense tropical for-ests, through which one can The tropicalscarcely make his way without j^A-fs ^first cutting a path. Few peopleexcept Indians live here, and, although largeboats can go far up the Amazon and its tribu- SOUTH AMERICA 183 taries, there is not a single large city in thisentire valley. How different it is in the val-ley of the Mississippi! The Indians live mainly by hunting andfishing, or by picking the tropical fruits fromthe trees and bushes. The rubber tree grows. Fig. 228. — A view of the city and harbor of Rio de Janeiro in the tropical forest, and also the cocoa tree,from whose seed chocolate is made. Greatquantities of rubber are shipped from Para,at the mouth of the Amazon. Most of the inhabitants of Brazil live inthe eastern and southern « .„„™.,»+ Much of this section Tne more set-tled part and is a plateau, crossedits products i^y -^^^ mountains. Because of the elevation thetemperature is much more agree-able than in the Amazon Val-ley; and, as you will see fromthe map, the very southern por-tion lies in the temperate zone. The chief industry is farm-ing. Besides grain, the crops ofthe warm temperate and tropicalclimates thrive, especially tropi-cal fruits, cotton, sugar cane, tobacco,and coffee. The last is most cattle are raised. Valuable minerals, including gold, the plateau region of Brazil. Indeed,this is one of the principal diamond-producing countries in the
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