Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . days. At night it is shut by iron bars of prison-like dimensions. Every lock, bolt, or mechanical contrivance seem as if they might have come from the Pompeiian department of the Museo Borbonico at Naples. The walls, composed of broken bits of stone cemented by common mortar, are as thick as those of a fortress. In the daytime you enter the great door and stand at thebottom of the staircase; but neither knocker nor bell announceyour presence. You clap your hands rapidly together; and,unless the family is of the high
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . days. At night it is shut by iron bars of prison-like dimensions. Every lock, bolt, or mechanical contrivance seem as if they might have come from the Pompeiian department of the Museo Borbonico at Naples. The walls, composed of broken bits of stone cemented by common mortar, are as thick as those of a fortress. In the daytime you enter the great door and stand at thebottom of the staircase; but neither knocker nor bell announceyour presence. You clap your hands rapidly together; and,unless the family is of the highest class, you are sure to be salutedby a slave from the top of the stairs with Quern e? (Who isthere ?) If you should behold your friends in the balcony, you notonly, if intimate, salute by removing the hat, but move quicklythe fingers of your hand, as if you were beckoning to some one. The furniture of the parlor varies in costliness according to thedegree of style maintained; but what you may always expect tofind is a cane-bottomed sofa at one extremity ami throe or four. DWELLIN G-H OUSE. Ladies and Music. 163 chairs arranged in precise parallel rows, extending from each endof it toward the middle of the room. In company the ladies areexpected to occupy the sofa and the gentlemen the chairs. The town-residences in the old city always seemed to me gloomybeyond description. But the same cannot be said of the newhouses, and of the lovely subuiban villas, with their surroundingsof embowering foliage, profusion of flowers, and overhangingfruits. Some portions of the Santa Theresa, Larangeiras, Bota-fogo, Catumby, Engenho Yelho, Praia Grande, and San Domingo,cannot be surpassed for their beautiful and picturesque houses inthe Brazilian style. There are various classes of society in Brazil as well as else-where, and the description of one would not hold good for another;but, having sketched the house, I shall next endeavor to trace theinmates from infancy to adult life. The Brazil
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