Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . 98 J. PREFACE. The popular notion of Brazil is,to a certain extent, delineated inthe accompanying rivers and virgin forests,* palm-trees and jaguars, anacondasand alligators, howling monkeysand screaming parrots, diamond-mining,revolutions, and earthquakes, are the com-ponent parts of the picture formed in theminds eye. It is probably hazarding no-thing to say that a very large majority ofgeneral readers are better acquaint-ed with China and India than withBrazil. How few seem toI be aware
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . 98 J. PREFACE. The popular notion of Brazil is,to a certain extent, delineated inthe accompanying rivers and virgin forests,* palm-trees and jaguars, anacondasand alligators, howling monkeysand screaming parrots, diamond-mining,revolutions, and earthquakes, are the com-ponent parts of the picture formed in theminds eye. It is probably hazarding no-thing to say that a very large majority ofgeneral readers are better acquaint-ed with China and India than withBrazil. How few seem toI be aware that in the distant||| Southern Hemisphere is ay stable constitutional mon-archy, and a growing na-tion, occupying a territoryof greater area than thatof the United States, andthat the descendants of the 3 Preface. Portuguese hold the same relative position iu South Americaas the descendants of the English in the northern half of theNew World! How few Protestants are cognizant of thefact that in the territory of Brazil the Reformed religion wasfirst proclaimed on the Western Cont
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