Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . tes, where they are sold as pure Havanas or KeyWest cigars. The Bahia tobacco is much inferior to that ofCuba. Many Brazilians buy imported cigars, and there is asteady trade in this product, between Rio and the WestIndies. Bahia was the first capital of Brazil, and, until the coffee-trade sprang up, it shared the commercial supremacy with29 450 BRAZIL. Rio. Even now, it is the second city of the empire, both insize and importance ; and with its fine harbor, it may yetregain what it has lost. But its people are far inferior tothose of Pernambuco; a large pro
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . tes, where they are sold as pure Havanas or KeyWest cigars. The Bahia tobacco is much inferior to that ofCuba. Many Brazilians buy imported cigars, and there is asteady trade in this product, between Rio and the WestIndies. Bahia was the first capital of Brazil, and, until the coffee-trade sprang up, it shared the commercial supremacy with29 450 BRAZIL. Rio. Even now, it is the second city of the empire, both insize and importance ; and with its fine harbor, it may yetregain what it has lost. But its people are far inferior tothose of Pernambuco; a large proportion of the populationconsists of negroes, slaves or free, and always ignorant andlazy ; the whites, too, are less frank and manly, more liketheir cousins of Rio and Sao Paulo. So I look for a strongerand more healthy growth in Pernambuco than in Bahia, not-withstanding the great natural advantages of the latter. From Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, the hills increase in heightconstantly, until they are merged into the rugged mountains. Victoria Harbor. of the Coast-Range. Now there are strange peaks, and nee-dles, and rock-masses rising straight up from the sea, a grandpanorama. We do not always run near the shore, for thereare dangerous reefs in this region, and much caution is re-quired in passing them. The coasting steamers touch atthree or four points; the last station north of Rio is Victoria,a queer little rock-bound harbor, so narrow that our ship,swinging around with the tide, almost cuts it in two. So at length we steam down from Cape Frio to the sugar-loaf, and pass into the magnificent bay of Rio de Janeiro. CHAPTER XV. SOCIAL LIFE AT RIO. THERE is nothing more difficult in authorship, than fora writer of one nation to judge fairly of the people ofanother. He must not measure them by his own experi-ence ; he may have been well or ill-treated, as he has en-countered good or bad individuals, or as circumstances haveplaced him in a favorable or unfavorable light with those
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