. The Brazilians and their country . A SEQUESTERED SPOT IN RURAL BRAZIL, WHERE THE BUSY WORLDS UN-CEASING NOISES ARE TOO FAR AWAY TO BE HEARD OR TO DISTRACT. o < o PARANAGUA 295 still run gently and free through fronds and overhangingflowers to the sea. Such and not otherwise is Paranagua, sitting historicand picturesque on the feet of her verdant hills, andreaching out glistening white hands of her many river-mouths in greeting to southern seas. Although the chief port town through which the Stateof Parana exports her timber, her herva mate and herrice, this town with its 15,000 inhabitant
. The Brazilians and their country . A SEQUESTERED SPOT IN RURAL BRAZIL, WHERE THE BUSY WORLDS UN-CEASING NOISES ARE TOO FAR AWAY TO BE HEARD OR TO DISTRACT. o < o PARANAGUA 295 still run gently and free through fronds and overhangingflowers to the sea. Such and not otherwise is Paranagua, sitting historicand picturesque on the feet of her verdant hills, andreaching out glistening white hands of her many river-mouths in greeting to southern seas. Although the chief port town through which the Stateof Parana exports her timber, her herva mate and herrice, this town with its 15,000 inhabitants still wears anancient face. The vestigial structures of older days andsixteenth century customs seem here to have fallen has hewn through her quiet precincts a busypath, lined by modern wholesale houses, and her beachesare dotted here and there with big piles of lumber await-ing shipment, but neither these nor the deep-toned whis-tles of steamships weaving carefully through her island-strewn harbours, have robbed Paranagua of the air ofcolonial days which one finds in so many of the isolatedparts of present-day Brazil. Towns, like pe
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