LIFE IN TEFFE". 
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many pleasant walks, and now we are sitting in the midst 
of valises and carpet-bags, waiting to see the steamer round 
the wooded point in front of the house, before we turn the 
key on our four weeks' home, and close this chapter of our 
Amazonian life. In this country, where time seems to be 
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Head of Alexandrina. 
of comparatively little importance, one is never sure wheth- 
er the boat will leave or arrive on the appointed day. One 
has only to make the necessary preparations, and then 
practise the favorite Brazilian virtue, " paciencia." The 
