Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . eads to fill for the days supply ;they chatter and gesticulate, and march back at length, walk-ing stiffly under their heavy burdens. Then the bathers ap-pear, one by one, and pass below the town to their own partof the beach : the clerks with towels on their arms ; the greatmen followed by little negro boys, with a chair, and a boardfor the feet, and sponge, soap, slippers, what not. We, withthe rest, are tumbling about in the water by this time ; in allAmazonia you will hardly find such another river for we go back to our coffee we see the washe
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . eads to fill for the days supply ;they chatter and gesticulate, and march back at length, walk-ing stiffly under their heavy burdens. Then the bathers ap-pear, one by one, and pass below the town to their own partof the beach : the clerks with towels on their arms ; the greatmen followed by little negro boys, with a chair, and a boardfor the feet, and sponge, soap, slippers, what not. We, withthe rest, are tumbling about in the water by this time ; in allAmazonia you will hardly find such another river for we go back to our coffee we see the washerwomen bring-ing down their baskets ; they tuck up their skirts neatly asthey wade in ; clothes are beaten by slapping the w^ater withthem, and the women pile them on their heads until theycome ashore again. By noon the sands are covered with dry-ing linen, and the lines are flying all colors. Many of these * This case of little Allie Stroop attracted much attention at Para, It is well that the child escaped so I30 washerwomen areslaves; the better fam-ilies generally own a few negroes, as the only servants theycan get, except the very unreliable In-dian ones. Sometimes Indian childrenare adopted, and brought up as ser-vants, but these wards are almost sureto leave their guardians as soon as theyare of age ; often they run away longbefore that time. Theslaves, it must be said,are very well treated,and they are often at-tached to their mas-ters. Strange river-craftare coming and going before the city;cattle-barges, and trading canoes, and fishingvessels, with not a few pretty day or two a steamboat anchors inthe port, and rarely a schooner, or even an ^ocean steamer, comes up from the sea. Some time, no doubt, Santarem will have Beach scenes at Santarer SANTAREM. 131 a large commerce direct with Europe and the United the dry season, the trade-winds blow steadily up the riverduring a great part of every day ; a schooner can ascenda
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