Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . --ing linen, and the lines are flying all colors. Many of these * This case of little Allie Stroop attracted much attention at Pari. It is wellthat the child escaped so 130 y washerwomen are ^Aslaves; the better fam- ^_5_-fR:ilies generally own a ~ few negroes, as the only servants theycan get, except the very unreliable In-dian ones. Sometimes Indian childrenare adopted, and brought up as ser-vants, but these wards are almost sureto leave their guardians as soon as theyare of age ; often they run away longbefore that time. Theslaves, it
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . --ing linen, and the lines are flying all colors. Many of these * This case of little Allie Stroop attracted much attention at Pari. It is wellthat the child escaped so 130 y washerwomen are ^Aslaves; the better fam- ^_5_-fR:ilies generally own a ~ few negroes, as the only servants theycan get, except the very unreliable In-dian ones. Sometimes Indian childrenare adopted, and brought up as ser-vants, but these wards are almost sureto leave their guardians as soon as theyare of age ; often they run away longbefore that time. Theslaves, it must be said,are very well treated,and they are often at-tached to their mas-ters. Strange river-craftare coming and going before the city;cattle-barges, and trading canoes, and fishingvessels, withnota few pretty day or two a steamboat anchors inthe port, and rarely a schooner, or even anocean steamer, comes up from the sea. Some time, no doubt, Santarcm will have Beach scenes at Santarem. SANTAREM. 131 a large commerce direct with Europe and the United the dry season, the trade-winds blow steadily up the riverduring a great part of every day ; a schooner can ascendagainst the current, eve
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