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Title: A summer journey to Brazil
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Humphrey, Alice R
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Publisher: New York, Bonnell, Silver & co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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andswept out through these convenient ventsinto the street. There are no longer bondslabeled descalgos, (barefooted) in whichsuch were compelled to ride. This time you must climb the mountainsback of Rio for the night. Had ever anemperor such a park as Dom Pedro made ofthese mountains of Tijuca ! Thirty miles ofpark road, swept every week, lighted by gas,winding in and out, up and down the precip-itous slopes of mountains green to the top !And such green! the green of palms andtree ferns, of trees with orchids and sipos.Every few yards brings you to a distinctlynew view : sometimes it includes the Atlantic,sometimes the Rio harbor, sometimes thedistant city, more often a lovely valley, awaterfall, a height of rock all covered withferns and mosses, and another stretch of yourwinding road with a railing of tall, gracefulbamboos growing at some dangerous place.You are shown the spots which Agassiz spe-cially studied and stay in the old hotel wherehe stayed. Why do people go to Petropolis
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ALLEY OF PALMS, BOTANICAL GARDEN, klO. PETROPOLIS. 49 with this beautiful spot so much nearer?Because, in the summer-time, between De-cember and April, yellow fever has beenknown to get a little lodgment even here ;rarely, it is true, but the foreigner who knowshis new home never takes any risks. Hewill not stay in Rio during fever-time aftersimdown. He wiU not go out in the earlymorning without his coffee. If he has theslightest intimation of fever he takes castoroil without a moments delay. If he hastaken the fever he goes at once to the hos-pital in Rio, not risking the change to thecool heights of Petropolis, lest he might nothave strength to rally in the cold when theperiod of collapse comes. You say youwould not live in a place where such a swordhung over your head, but they read NewYork and Chicago papers in July with rec-ords of hundreds of deaths from sunstrokewhile their temperature is hardly varying fivedegrees from seventy, and in February, whentheir fever is at its worst,

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