Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . iro, far into the province of Minas Geraes,the road is lined everywhere with rich planters send their produce to Entre Rios, by thisroute; sometimes to Rio. Tolls are levied at intervals;with these, and the stages, the company reaps a rich har-vest. With a tinkling of bells and a patter of hoofs, the mule-trains pass on down the road. The animals walk in sin-gle file, each one with a pair of coffee-sacks slung fromthe rough pack-frame; behind them come the muleteers,mounted or on foot, and dressed in the picturesque, half-European cost
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . iro, far into the province of Minas Geraes,the road is lined everywhere with rich planters send their produce to Entre Rios, by thisroute; sometimes to Rio. Tolls are levied at intervals;with these, and the stages, the company reaps a rich har-vest. With a tinkling of bells and a patter of hoofs, the mule-trains pass on down the road. The animals walk in sin-gle file, each one with a pair of coffee-sacks slung fromthe rough pack-frame; behind them come the muleteers,mounted or on foot, and dressed in the picturesque, half-European costume of the Brazilian country-people. Nearly34 530 BRAZIL. all coffee is brought to the railroads in this manner. For-merly the rough paths did not allow of any better convey-ance ; now there are many good roads about Rio and SaoPaulo, but even when these are available, the planters clingto the old system ; only a few use wagons. Entre Rios is on a branch of the Dom Pedro SegundoRailroad, where the latter meets the Uniao e Industria. The Uniao e Industria Road, near Entre Rios. road. From its situation, the little country-town promisesto become a thriving inland city, the metropolis of thisrich coffee region. The hills around are covered with plan-tations, each with its white-walled fazenda, like a contrasted to these are the jaunty, modern-lookingrailroad station, and the attendant hotel, which might bea country-tavern in the United States. Mule-trains come todischarjje their cargoes at the station ; bags of coffee are THE STORY OF COFFEE. 531 piled on the platform ; cars are being loaded with them ;a storehouse near by is half-filled with coffee, awaitingshipment. From the titled gentleman who passes you, tothe dapper landlord, and the merest day-laborer, every-body in Entre Rios is dependent on coffee. The streetsand buildings are fragrant with coffee; people drink coffeeat the restaurant, and quote coffee prices at Rio ; sell cof-fee, buy it, plant it, gather it
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