Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . voice, to his con-sternation, is by no meanspianissimo. There is an-other out-door affair muchmore congenial: manya sly attempt to kill thebixo is made at the ad-joining venda while thewater pours into the bar-rils of the earlier mistresses, how-ever, who find that theircooks have always to waitfor the water, make arrangements with the water-carriers, whoperambulate the streets with an immense hogshead mounted onwheels and drawn by a mule. This vehicle, during a fire, (not afrequent occurrence,) is
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . voice, to his con-sternation, is by no meanspianissimo. There is an-other out-door affair muchmore congenial: manya sly attempt to kill thebixo is made at the ad-joining venda while thewater pours into the bar-rils of the earlier mistresses, how-ever, who find that theircooks have always to waitfor the water, make arrangements with the water-carriers, whoperambulate the streets with an immense hogshead mounted onwheels and drawn by a mule. This vehicle, during a fire, (not afrequent occurrence,) is required to supply the fire-engines. Thesemen are generally natives of Portugal or the Azores, and seememinently qualified by nature to be hewers of wood and drawersof water. They carry the water up-stairs and pour it into largeearthen jars, which bring to mind the waterpots at the marriageof Cana in Galilee. The huge earthen vases are arranged onstands in places where there is a current of air, and the liquidelement in them thus acquires a coolness which, though not equal. THE ANGOLIANS REPROACH. Family Recreations. 175 to the iced water of the United States, possesses a delightfulfrigidity. Ice is in Brazil an expensive luxury, brought solelyfrom North America, and not in general use even in Eio, and, ofcourse, unknown in the country. Boston apples and ice are both inthe highest esteem; but the latter was rejected, as altogether un-wholesome, upon its introduction in 1833, and the first cargo wasa total loss to the adventurers. At the present time both com-mand a good price; and in the month of January the quitandeirasmaybe heard crying out lustily, Manilas Americanas, (Americanapples,) which they sell for five or six vintems each.
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