Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm - Thomas Ewbank - Google Books

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CONTENTS.

New York to Hampton Roads: Passports.-Wrinkled Faces.-Bataleurs.-Rich-

mond.—Market.—Mules.-Lotteries.-James River.-Floating Boarding-house

-A Virginian Job.-Crippled Slave.-The Roads

Ten Days' Sail Beat out.-New Sensations.-Captain in Costume.-A Gale.—

Sea-sickness.-Water Rams.-Gulf Stream.-Christmas Carols.-Human Dar-

ing.-Ship hunted by marine Demons.-Hard Life of Seamen.-Cook and Cap-

tain.-Enchanting Skies.-Minute Crabs.....

Twenty-four Days' Sail: Sea Sorrows.-A Genoese.-Rough Weather.-A Fly-

ing-fish.-Flowers of Death.-Oceanic Skies.-The Atmosphere charged with

red Dust-Firmamental Paintings.-Flying-fish Latitudes.-Cream-colored or

Quaker Skies.-Flying-fish again.—A Meniscus.—A Squall.—A ship in Dis-

tress.—A young Fly.—In the Variables.—The Ocean unchangeable.-Temper-

ature of Air and Water.-Brazilian Coasts.

Diagram of the Ship's Motions.-The Ravels at Sea.-Sailing in Elysium.-

Worlds are Ships of the Almighty Merchant.-The Nebula his Ship-yards.--

The Ocean a Type of the Sea of Life.—Abrolhos and Squalls.—Cape Frio.—

Land-breeze.-Sea-breeze.-Sugar-loaf.-Enter the Bay.-Former Treatment

of Foreigners.-Table of Latitudes and Longitudes during the Voyage..... 47

The Bay, City, and Suburbs from the Ship-The Forts.-I land alone.-The Cat-

tete.-A Brazilian Parlor.-Meeting of two Brothers

Almanacs.-Livery Stables.-Carriages.-Honorable H. A. Wise.-The Host.-

Booming of the Surf-The Matadoura.-Beeves.-Assist at Mass.-Esmola

Box.-Apollonia.—A Funeral.—Funeral Customs.-Mourning.-Cost of Mass-

es for the Dead

The Military Arsenal: its Manufactures.-Fine old bronze Ordnance.-School.

-Ceremony of the Hat.-Larangeiras.-Cattete Brook and Washerwomen.--

A Brazilian Chacara. - Old Portuguese Customs. - Butterflies. - Fountains.

-Indian Medicine-tree.-A Dessert after the manner of Eden.---Uniformity

of tropical Heats.-Iron Collars on Slaves.-Shoes and Neckcloths symbols

of Freedom.-The Vicar and Sneezing.-The public Garden an earthly Ely-

Sudden Floods and their singular Inconveniences.-Discovery of Brazil.-Indians

and early Navigators. - Rio founded by French Protestants.-Their religious

Disputes. An Indian Chief knighted. - His Descendants. - Location of the

City-Saints of the Hills.-Streets and Pavements.-Houses.-Jalousies.—

Roofs.-Chimneys.-Spouts.-Street Lamps.-Substitute for Bells and Door-

knockers.-Signs.-Markets.-Fountains.-No Sewers or Sinks.-Rio a City

of Quarries-Neighboring Mountains.-Names of Streets, etc.

Sedans. Removing Furniture to new Dwellings.-Street "Cries."-Peddlers.-

Large Lizard.-Penny Portraits of Saints.-The Intrudo and its Sports -Of

Hindoo Origin. - Death and Burial of the Secretary of the Institute. - The

Church, Coffin, Corpse, Cemetery, and Orations

The Marimba.-Procession announced.--Unloading Lime-boats.-Lapa Convent

and Lady at Confession.-The Campo and Lavandeiras.-Dog-killers.-Custom-

house.-Trucks.-A Slave chained to one.-Young and old Women in Chains.

-Coffee Carriers.-Crippled Slaves. The Spectacle given up.-An Angel.-

The Musuem.--Antiquities, etc.-Fathers of Snuff and the Snuff-trade.-Orig-

inal Snuff-mills and Sniffing Apparatus.- Slave-traders.-Monastery of San

Bento its Monks, Chapel, Cells, Library, and Bookworms.-Sopping.-Great

Wealth of this Monastery

Diversity of Complexion in one Family-Sabbath Diversions.-Street of Silver-

smiths. Its staple Manufactures.-Amulets.-Figas.-Lock and Key.-Passage

in Shakspeare explained.-Eating-houses. - Charges.-Sneezers "blessed.”—

Priests. Free colored Men.-Great Consumption of Pork.—National Dish.—

Pastry and Confectionery.-Heavenly Bacon.-Francis of Penitence.--Brother-

hoods akin to modern Odd Fellows.-Terms of Admission.-Advantages.-Who

this Francis was.-Garden, and Electric Eel-Current Philosophy respecting

the Sex-Divination.-Provincial Nicknames.-Dowries in Cocoa and Coffee-

trees.-Vegetable and other Sobriquets. - Horsewomen.-Officers' Wives on

Drill in Military Costume.-Morals of the Priesthood...

Visit to Christoval: native Sheep-Palace of a Peddler -Imperial Quinta.-Ra-

pacity of the old Queen.-Miguel-A Viscount and his strange Employment.-

Emperor's Apartments.-Objects of Natural History.-Collection of Coins

Peruvian, Egyptian, and Roman Antiquities. - Laboratory. - Theatre, and

Poor Anthony robbed.-Ex Votos.-Their Manufacture.-Humming-bird and Bou-

quet.-Affronted Image and wicked Painter.-His Punishment, and Process of

disaffronting" the Image.-Imperial Chapel and its Shrines.-Turk's Head.—

Barefooted Friars.-Estaçio de Sá.-Slab over him.-Chief of the Capuchins

-Virgin's Shoe-sole.—Architectural Remains.―Ajuda Convent.-Dumb Wait-

er.-Glimpse into the Interior.-Vestals.-Nuns in the Ajuda, and their Treat-

Candelaria Church.-Jacks of the Clock.-Peccary.—God's Stepfather.-Botanic

Garden. Snake.-Fences.-Dinner and its Cost.-Catalogue of Plants in the

Goddess of the Blind.-Her Church, Shrines, and Symbols.-A Slave consulting

her.-Interview with her Sacristan.-Ex Votos.-Our Lady of the Cape of Good

Hope-Insuring Friars.-Other Professional and Competing Saints.--Street

Rain. Mechanical Professions.-Labor versus Respectability.-Effect on young

Men.-Building.—Hammer-gamut.-Working Hours and Wages.-Rejoicings

over Rafters. — Masons and Masonry. --Scaffolds.-Walls.-Antiquity of the

Tools.-Plummet.-Hatchet or Adze.-Carpenter's Bench.-Saw and Planes.—

Mode of laying Floors.-Doors, Shutters, Hardware.-Pavers.-Lithography.-

Coppersmiths.-Lamp.—Slave Artisans.—Merchants. — Barbers.—Beggars.—

Lawyers.-Lotteries.

Maté and Cups.-Sunday Scenes.-Gloria Church.-Images, Vestry, Ex Votos.

and Paintings.-Miracles in behalf of Pedro I. and one of his Daughters.-Lady

of Gloria and a Larangeiras Absalom.-Chapel of the Ajuda grated like a Jail.

-Its Shrines and Images.-A Penitent licking the Dust.-Public Notice of a

Procession.-Images, Angels, and Pomp described...
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All Fools' Day.-Streets flooded.-Breaking down Mountains.-Notices of Festi-

vals.-Flying Visit to Francis Paula, St. Anne, Joaquim, St. Rita, Bom Jesus,

and the Candelaria.-No Animal Oils burned in Churches.-Carmelite Proces-

sion with full-grown Images.-The Nimbus and its curious Origin ....... 208

Palm Sunday: Ceremonies and Customs.-Eunuch Singers.-Specimens of Ec-

clesiastical Advertisements.-Benedictine Chapel.-Dark Wednesday.-A Mer-

ceeiro. Juno Lucina of Rio.-Lady of Civilities.-Holy Thursday.-Matracas.

-Silver Plate in the Carmo Church.-Kissing a dead Christ in the Candelaria.

-Appearance of the Interior.-Kissing the Floor and Steps in the Bom Jesus

-Plate in the Paula.-Mine-finders.

Good Friday.-Capuchins preaching.-Burial of God.-Dresses and Jewels of the

Angels.-Allelulia Saturday.-Blessing Fire and Water.-Paschal Candle.-

Killing Judas.—Church Machinery.—Cinerary Urns and Commemoration of

the Dead-Symbols carried by Angels.-Boy Monk.-Little Prospect of Prot-

estant Missions succeeding in Brazil.-Mary of Nazareth....

the Church a Mart for them.-Measures of Saints.-Royal Touches

and metallic Tractors.-Bentinhos.-Pictures of Saints.-Indulgences.-Hindoo

Pictures. - Portable Images. Medals of Saints.

Bedini.-Symbols of the

- Pieces of holy Rock.-Hippocanthus.-Figa.-

Ashes of Palm.-Rue.-Love Powder. Sieve and Shears.-Curing the Be-

witched.-Negro Witches. Cures for Whitlows and Toothache.-The Evil

Eye.-Rio Poulterers troubled with it.-Horns quench it..

Begging for the Holy Ghost.-The Symbols.-Mr. Barboza.-An afflicted Moth-

er. The City agitated through Mistake.-San Jorge.-Market.-Church of

Peddlers.- Burying-ground of Heretics. - Small Water-craft. - Beeves of the

Sun.-Lady of Navigators.-Mozambique tribal Marks.-Church of Boa Via-

gem.-Ex Votos and Miracles.-Curious Lavatory.-View of the Harbor and

Mountains. Alms-box.-Ships' Sails vowed to Our Lady, and sold on her Ac-

count.-Indian Boy.-Wax offered to Marine Deities by old Pagans.—Other

Heathen Types of Romish Customs....

People of Color.-Twilight and Climate.-Barbonos Monks.-The Ex-Nuncio.-

Henry A. Wise recalled.-Arrival of the Emperor and Anxieties of Courtiers.

-A new Saint.-Mask.-Market Incident.-St. Peter's Church.-N. S. Con-

ceição. Plaster Images proposed.-Collecting-days and Collectors.-Church of

the Mother of Men.-Fat Ladies and Gentlemen.-Unctuous Worship of N. S's.

Shoe-sole.-Bedini, the new Nuncio.....

Pluvial Deity. Aqueduct Records. - Pope John. - Ecclesiastical "Cries.".

Slaves.-Army Recruits.-The Emperor opens the Legislature.-Fires and Fire-

engines. Slaves. Suicide. Begging for the Holy Ghost.-Auction of

Winter.-New Saint.-Lady do Parto.-An English Monk-Black and white In-

fants in Purgatory.-Auction at a private Dwelling: its Furniture, Garden, La-

res, Oratorio, and Slaves.--Barber's Basin and Shaving-cloth.-Mass and Capu-

chins.-Church of the Rosary, its Images and Ex Votos.-A sick Man.-Old

Uncertain Origin of the Negro Saint. Ramble through Nicthe-

---

Inauguration of a new Saint: how the alleged Bones were procured.-Buried in

a waxen Figure.-The Bishop's Letter.-The Affair generally condemned.—

Bedini and Miranda. — The Emperor declines joining the Procession. — The

Pomp. The "Arca" and Saint within.-Official Account.-Newspaper Puff.-

A Visit to Priscilliana.-Miranda's Circular.-A French Tribunal on Religious

Impositions....

A Day for getting Souls out of Purgatory.-Trip to the Falls of Tejuca.-Charac-

ter of the Country.-Anacharsis and Charcoal.-Fat Pigs and Morphea.-Mills.

-Cotton-tree.-Coffee Plantation.-Tailless Dogs and Fowls.-Process of pre-

paring Coffee for the Market.-Early Notice of Cauphe.-The Falls.-Dinner

and Dessert at them.-Inscriptions on the Gavia.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Church Advertisements.-Auction and Fire-works at St. Rita's Church.-Articles

sold.-Official Puff.-Horse-racing in honor of the Holy Ghost.-St. Gonçalo

the Friend of the unmarried.-Capuchin preaching.-Two Slaves given to the

Friars, and their Baptism by Bedini.-Chief Capuchin.—Priscilliana.—Famine

in Ceara.-Indians bought and sold

Winter and Western Islanders.-Brazilian Names: their Derivation and Import.

-Primitive Patronymics.-Combinations.-Names in connection with Profes-

sions.-Names of Ships.-Pigs and Pig-stealing.-Invitation to Tea.... 324

St. Anthony of Padua: his Monastery and Miracles.-His Rank and Salary as a

Soldier. Shameful Treatment of his Images.-Feast of the Holy Ghost.-Auc-

tions and Fire-works, etc

Vicar and Vintems.-Theatricals.-Barbonos Monks and the troublesome Black-

smith.-Priscilliana.-Host and drunken Bellman.-Proceedings of the National

Senate arrested.-Slave-trader's Office.-Anthony of the Poor: his Festival and

Tablets.-Mosquitoes and Lizards.-Corpus Christi and St. George.-Showmen

and the Burial.

Crockery-wares: Talhas.-Monkey.-Moringues.-Furnaces, Flower-pots, etc.—

Water-baril.-Scrubbing-brush.-Mortars.-Fuel

CHAPTER XXXIII.

A Trip to Macacu.-Steam up the Bay.-Prospects.-Slaves.-Sambayratiba.—

Dense Mist.-Bed-chamber.-Attacked by Rats.-Extent of the Pest.—Sugar-

house. Stingless Bees.-Sheep-Dogs without Tails. Visit other Estates.-

Wasps' and Ants' Nests.-The Rats again.-Scenes in the Forest.—Sipos.-

Spoon Wheels. Female Slaves making Brick.-Chigres.-Muleteers camping.

-Estate of the Carmelites.-Mules
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