The Bible in Brazil; colporter experiences . rs, eat from a tin pan or gourd with thehands, knives and forks and spoons being oflittle use to them and their clothing is reduced toa few simple articles. While the crops are grow-ing they engage in fishing, cutting the fish inthin slices, salting and hanging it on poles inthe sun to dry. At the beginning of this seasonthe traders come up the river in canoes with sup-plies of salt, dry goods, etc., which they barterto the planters for the beans, rice, dried fish,hides, etc., that they may have ready a few monthslater. Just before the rains set in
The Bible in Brazil; colporter experiences . rs, eat from a tin pan or gourd with thehands, knives and forks and spoons being oflittle use to them and their clothing is reduced toa few simple articles. While the crops are grow-ing they engage in fishing, cutting the fish inthin slices, salting and hanging it on poles inthe sun to dry. At the beginning of this seasonthe traders come up the river in canoes with sup-plies of salt, dry goods, etc., which they barterto the planters for the beans, rice, dried fish,hides, etc., that they may have ready a few monthslater. Just before the rains set in the tradersbegin to collect their pay and load their vesselsfor the homeward voyage and are ready to beborne down the stream by the first freshet. Theplanters gather up a portion of their crops, driedfish, and other things, and at the beginning of therainy season, about October, return to their hutsin the hills and mountains, where they spend thetime in comparative ease and idleness until thenext planting season, doing little except as they. AN EAGLE INDIAN. (Aiiiiizoii.) Down the San Francisco 185 kill a few wild animals and have the hides driedfor the river trade. These very fertile lands some day will be madeto yield more abundantly for mans comfort andto enrich their owners. I saw stalks of cottongrowing without cultivation to the height ofseven or eight feet, from which I gathered beau-tiful white bolls which I submitted to a com-petent person in Rio de Janeiro who pronouncedit a very excellent quality of raw cotton. Thepossibilities of this valley are really unknown,and doubtless it holds much wealth and comfortyet to be developed by man. The next stage of our journey from Carln-hanhas was about eighty miles to the famousBom Jesus da Lapa (Good Jesus of the Grotto).As we came near the village we had a splendidview of what is popularly known as the crouch-ing lion, but which one writer has termed aheadless sphinx. It is a great stone about six oreight hundred feet long, ab
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