CHAPTER XX 



SAO PAULO 



"Ne care ne feare I how the wind do blow, 

 Or whether swift I wend or whether slow: 

 Both slow and swift alike do serve my tourne; 

 Ne swelling Neptune ne lowd-thundring Jove 

 Can chaunge my cheare, or make me ever mourne." 



SPENSER, The Faerie Queene. 



JUST before we docked at Santos I packed a small 

 hand-satchel with such things as I might need 

 during a brief stay on shore, and came on deck with my 

 rain-coat over my arm and the satchel in my hand. 

 "Where are you going?*' said the Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary. "I am going to take the first train I can catch 

 for Sao Paulo. I shall spend the afternoon and the 

 evening of to-day in that city, and then to-night I am 

 going by the fast express to Rio de Janeiro, and will 

 rejoin the steamer to-morrow, or next day.' 'I am 

 going with you, if I may, " came the reply. The matter 

 was quickly arranged. His Excellency in a few minutes 

 gathered together the things needed for his trip, and 

 reappeared upon deck. We were the first to go over 

 the side of the ship. We found out that we would have 

 time to draw some money, and also to take an early 

 luncheon, before the train started. We not only did 

 this, but had time to go to the park and have a look at 



the sloths crawling about in the tree-tops. 



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