Identifier: brazilamazonscoa00smit (find matches)
Title: Brazil, the Amazons and the coast
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919
Subjects: Folklore -- Brazil Brazil -- Description and travel Brazil -- Economic conditions Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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n dismissing the subject from their minds as some-thing they are incapable of understanding. With all thecrowding to see the lady of our party, hardly a person askedwhy she came. So, too, the babies are unambitious ; theydo not cry after pretty colors, or stretch out their hands toa candle. And the men have no apparent desire to bettertheir lot. They go on just as their fathers did ; submit tothe impositions of the whites, a little sullenly, but withouta thought of rebellion, unless there is a white or a half-breedto lead them. The children do not care much for play-things ; we rarely see one with a rag doll; the little boysdelight in bows and arrows, but they take them as a part AN INDIAN VILLAGE. ;89 of their training. Sometimes the children have dances, inimitation of the festa sports ; and we hear them hummingthe waltzes and quadrilles which their quick ears have caughtfrom the musicians. As an Indian will paddle steadily allday, while his wife at home hardly ceases her monotonous
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Indian Wonnan beating Cotton. cotton-beating, so the little ones have an inexhaustible giftof patience. Where a white child would fret and cry, thebrown one sits all day, perfectly still, but watching every-thing around him. To see a little Indian boy in a canoe,you would say that nothing of him was alive but his eyes. Most of the boys get a little schooling, after the prev-alent fashion here: i. e,, about an equal amount of drytext-book* and smarting ferule. However, they are bright * No wonder that the Amazonian boys have so poor an idea of geography; inall their school-books there is not a single map. 390 BRAZIL. students, and soon learn to read and write the easy Por-tuguese language. Sometimes the children are taken intowhite families, where they do very well at first; but as theygrow older they become impatient of restraint, and dreammoodily of their native wilds. So it generally happens thatthe boys embark in a trading or fishing canoe, and the girlselope with some admirer to p

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