Travels in Brazil, by J.B. von Spix and C.F.P. von Martius |
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Page 159 - Sometimes a sudden wind arises, and the juiceless leaves of the acaju rustle; the richly flowered grumijama and pitanga let drop a fragrant shower of snow-white blossoms ; the crowns of the majestic palms wave slowly over the silent roof which they overshade, like a symbol of peace and tranquillity.
Page 231 - ... in good condition ; repairs them when they gall, cures the sick beasts, and attends to the shoes. Under him are the drivers (toccadores), each of whom generally has to manage a division (lote} of seven mules. They go on foot, put the burdens off and on, feed and water the animals, drive them to the pasture, and cook the provisions. The Arieiro, generally a free mulatto, frequently attends to the sale and purchase of goods in the city, and acts as commissioner for the proprietor of the caravan....
Page 158 - A delicate, transparent mist hangs over the country, the moon shines brightly amidst heavy and singularly grouped clouds; the outlines of the objects which are illuminated by it are clear and well defined, while a magic twilight seems to remove from the eye those which are in the shade. Scarce a breath of air is stirring, and the neighboring mimosas, that have folded up their leaves to sleep, stand motionless...
Page 245 - Meantime, the amorous thrush, concealed in the thicket, pours forth her joy in a strain of beautiful melody ; the chattering manakins, cal.ling from the close bushes, sometimes here, sometimes there, in the full tones of the nightingale, amuse themselves in misleading the hunters ; and the woodpecker makes the distant forests resound while he picks the bark from the trees.
Page 321 - In this part we met with several families of the people called Cafusos, who are a mixture of blacks and Indians. Their external appearance is one of the strangest that a European can meet with. They are slender and muscular, in particular the muscles of the breast and arms are very strong ; the feet, on the contrary, in proportion, weaker. Their colour is a dark copper, or coffee brown.
Page 159 - A stream gently murmuring descends from the mountains, and the macuc (Perdix guyanensis), with its almost human voice, seems to call for help from a distance. Every quarter of an hour, different balsamic odours fill the air, and other flowers alternately unfold their leaves to the night, and almost overpower the senses with their perfume.
Page 230 - European, accustomed to the conveyance of considerable burthens in waggons, is astonished at the sight of so many cargoes divided into small parcels, which are abandoned to the discretion of the beasts or of an unskilful driver, daily loaded and unloaded several times, either in the open air or in exposed sheds, scarcely protected against the rain and the weather, and often carried in this manner several hundred miles. The caravans...
Page 321 - Their features, on the whole, have more of the Ethiopic than of the American race. The countenance is oval, the cheek-bones high, but not so broad as in the Indians ; the nose broad and flattened, but neither turned up nor much bent ; the mouth broad, with thick but equal lips, which, as well as the lower jaw, project but little ; the black eyes have a more open and freer look than in the Indians, yet are still a little oblique, if not standing so much inward as in them, on the other hand, not turned...
Page 322 - Polonica, is not a disease, but merely a consequence of their mixed descent, and is the mean between the wool of the negro and the long, stiff hair of the American. This natural peruke is often so high, that the wearers must stoop low to go in and out of the usual doors of their huts ; the thick hah1 is, besides, so entangled, that all idea of combing it is out of the question.
Page 159 - While the silent vegetable world, illuminated by swarms of fireflies, as by a thousand moving stars, charms the night by its delicious effluvia, brilliant lightnings play incessantly in the horizon, and elevate the mind in joyful admiration to the stars, which, glowing in solemn silence in the firmament above the continent and ocean, fill the soul with a presentiment of still sublimer wonders.