46 A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
CHAPTER II. 
RIO DE JANEIRO AND ITS ENVIRONS. JUIZ DE FORA. 
ARRIVAL. ASPECT OF HARBOR AND CITY, -r- CUSTOM-HOUSE. FIRST GLIMPSK 
OF BRAZILIAN LIFE. NEGRO DANCE. EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION IN UNITED 
STATES UPON SLAVERY IN BRAZIL. FIRST ASPECT OF Rio DE JANEIRO ON 
LAND. PICTURESQUE STREET GROUPS. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. AT HOME 
IN Rio. LARANGEIRAS. PASSEIO PUBLICO. EXCURSION ON THE DOM 
PEDRO RAILROAD. - - VISIT OF THE EMPEROR TO THE COLORADO. COR- 
DIALITY OF GOVERNMENT TO THE EXPEDITION. LABORATORY. BOTANICAL 
GARDEN. -- ALLEY OF PALMS. EXCURSION TO THE CORCOVADO. Juiz 
DE FORA ROAD. PETROPOLIS. TROPICAL VEGETATION. RIDE FROM 
PETROPOLIS TO Juiz DE FORA. VISIT TO SENHOR LAGE. EXCURSION TO 
THE " FOREST OF THE EMPRESS." VISIT TO MR. HALFELD. RETURN TO 
Rio. NEWS OF THE GREAT NORTHERN VICTORIES, AND OF THE PRESIDENT'S 
ASSASSINATION. 
April 23d. - - Yesterday at early dawn we made Cape 
Frio light, and at seven o'clock were aroused by the wel- 
come information that the Organ Mountains were in sight. 
The coast range here, though not very lofty, (its highest 
summits ranging only from two to three thousand feet,) is 
bold and precipitous. The peaks are very conical, and 
the sides slope steeply to the water's edge, where, in many 
places, a wide beach runs along their base. The scenery 
grew more picturesque as we approached the entrance of 
the bay, which is guarded by heights rising sentinel-like 
on either side. Once within this narrow rocky portal, 
the immense harbor, stretching northward for more than 
twenty miles, seems rather like a vast lake enclosed by 
mountains than like a bay. On one side extends the 
ridge which shuts it from the sea, broken by the sharp 
peaks of the Corcovado, the Tijuca, and the flat-topped 
Gavia ; on the other side, and more inland, the Orgar 
