Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Drying Mate and Preparing it for Porto Alegre. IN SEMI-TROPICAL BRAZIL inhabitants, and is, after Sao Paulo, the most populouscity in southern Brazil. I was eager to visit it because it has been, for threequarters of a century, the chief commercial center of thenumerous German colonies that owed their existence to theenergy and enterprise of Dom Pedro I. The first immi-grants established themselves in the immediate vicinity ofPorto Alegre, but, from the capital as a center, t
Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Drying Mate and Preparing it for Porto Alegre. IN SEMI-TROPICAL BRAZIL inhabitants, and is, after Sao Paulo, the most populouscity in southern Brazil. I was eager to visit it because it has been, for threequarters of a century, the chief commercial center of thenumerous German colonies that owed their existence to theenergy and enterprise of Dom Pedro I. The first immi-grants established themselves in the immediate vicinity ofPorto Alegre, but, from the capital as a center, they gradu-ally spread themselves over a great part of the state. Liketheir compatriots in the United States of the North, theycourageously pushed into the depths of the virgin forestand the native Brazilians soon became aware of the exist-ence of long chains of settlements and villages and townswhere not only the manners and customs of the peoplewere German but also the language as well. German wasthe language taught in the schools as well as that spokenin the homes and places of business of these sturdy arrivalsfrom the Fatherland. So true is th
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