. Forty years in Brazil . to hear it. Confetti-throwing has now fortunately quite super-seded the old game of Entrudo, which was oneof the great features of Carnival. This game usedto commence some days—indeed, two or threeweeks—before the actual Carnival, and con-sisted in playing with Bisnagas (a kind of col-lapsible tube such as are now used for Hazeline, orLanoline), filled with scented water, which theyoung men and maidens used to squirt at oneanother. As the days went on, however, the fungrew faster and more furious, and Limoes wereused instead. Limao is the Portuguese forlemon, and inde
. Forty years in Brazil . to hear it. Confetti-throwing has now fortunately quite super-seded the old game of Entrudo, which was oneof the great features of Carnival. This game usedto commence some days—indeed, two or threeweeks—before the actual Carnival, and con-sisted in playing with Bisnagas (a kind of col-lapsible tube such as are now used for Hazeline, orLanoline), filled with scented water, which theyoung men and maidens used to squirt at oneanother. As the days went on, however, the fungrew faster and more furious, and Limoes wereused instead. Limao is the Portuguese forlemon, and indeed, they were not unlike lemons insize and colour. They were made of very thinwax and, like the bisnagas, filled with scentedwater. With these Limoes the parties engagedin the game would pelt one another. The mostapproved fashion was for the young men to come upto the house they intended to attack, accompaniedby a negro carrying a taboleiro ^ laden with these ^ For an explanation of this word see Chapter VI, page XaTIOXAL AiUSELM, KlO DE JANEIRO. From Brazil in 1912. Ml P ii ^ IE ^^nug^^Sig 73 ?i 91 IHi M^^HR i . •• BIIIIMI ^^m ^^m-^^ ?n mmm *ii. **«*%*« Ilha Das Flores, Bay of Rio Emigrants Brazil in 1912. STREET NAMES 207 wax grenades, and at the windows of the housethus signalled out the ladies would appear, alsoprovided with trays full of these missiles, and thebattle then commenced, each party trying to aimat the other, and generally with more or lesssuccess, judging by the coughs and colds, not tomention other complaints of a graver nature, whichalways followed upon these high revels. It was while I was in Porto Alegre that a veryludicrous episode occurred in connexion with thealteration of the name of a street. I should explainfirst that it is the custom in Brazil to bestow thenames of public men on their streets, such asgenerals, admirals, leading public men and so on. Thenames derived from this latter source are sometimessubject to alteratio
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