80 A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
CHAPTER III. 
LIFE IN BIO CONTINUED. FAZENDA LIFE. 
BOTAFOGO. INSANE HOSPITAL. TIJUCA. ERRATIC DRIFT. VEGETATION. 
BIRTHDAY DINNER. ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARTIES TO THE INTERIOR. 
PURLIC LECTURES IN Rio PROCESSION OF ST. GEORGE. LEAVE Rio ON 
EXCURSION TO THE FORTALEZA DE SANTA ANNA. LOCALITIES FOR ERRATIC 
DRIFT BETWEEN Rio AND PETROPOLIS. DEPARTURE FROM Juiz DE FORA. 
ARRIVAL AT THE FAZENDA. RIDE IN THE FOREST. EVE OF SAN JOAO. 
Crrm NKSTS.-- EXCURSION TO THE UPPER FAZENDA GRAND HUNT. 
PICNIC. COFFEE PLANTATION. RETURN TO Rio. MIMIC SNOW-FIELDS. 
COFFEE INSECT SPINNING ITS NEST. VISIT TO THE FAZENDA OF COM- 
MENDADOR BREVES. BOTANIZING EXCURSION TO TlJUCA. PREPARATIONS 
FOR LEAVING RlO. MAJOR COUTINHO. CoLLEGIO DOM PEDRO SEGUNDO. 
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May 22t?. This afternoon Dr. and Mrs. C and 
myself went out for a country ramble, somewhat at a 
venture, it is true, but feeling sure that in the beautiful 
scenery about Rio we could hardly go amiss. "We took 
one of the many ferry-boats in the neighborhood of our 
hotel, and presently found ourselves on the way to Botafogo. 
Almost all the environs of the city are built along beaches ; 
there is the beach or Praia of Botafogo, the Praia of San 
Christovao, the Praia of San Domingo, and half a dozen 
others, all of which mean some suburb of the town situated 
on the shore with a beach in front of it. As it is rather the 
fashion for the better class of people to live out of town, the 
houses and gardens in these suburbs are often delightful. 
We enjoyed the sail exceedingly. For a part of the way 
the boat keeps close under the mountains, and no descrip- 
tion can give an idea of their picturesque outlines, or of 
the wonderful coloring which softens all their asperities 
and mellows the whole landscape. We landed at a jetty 
