Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . N. SENHORA D E IH ONT SE3R AT. road which leads to the Fever Hospital: here we descended andwalked to the tongue of land called Montserrat, upon which arepicturesque fortifications, a row of summer-houses,—that of Mr. View of Bahia from Montserrat. 489 Gillmer distinguished by the American flag,—and on the extremepoint a small Eoman Catholic chapel, more than two hundred yearsold, above the doorway of which I deciphered this inscription:—A Virgem foi concebido sem peccado original. Why Romanistsshould cling with suc
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . N. SENHORA D E IH ONT SE3R AT. road which leads to the Fever Hospital: here we descended andwalked to the tongue of land called Montserrat, upon which arepicturesque fortifications, a row of summer-houses,—that of Mr. View of Bahia from Montserrat. 489 Gillmer distinguished by the American flag,—and on the extremepoint a small Eoman Catholic chapel, more than two hundred yearsold, above the doorway of which I deciphered this inscription:—A Virgem foi concebido sem peccado original. Why Romanistsshould cling with such tenacity to the dogma of the immaculateconception, which contains nothing essential to salvation, I couldnever understand. We visited the well-appointed hospital near by, which is intendedparticularly for those who have been smitten with the yellow fever;but its attacks have been very light for the last few years, thoughthe cholera, in 1855, was quite fatal to the blacks and to the mixedpopulation generally. Yet, when we consider that, out of a popula-tion of nearly
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