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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1910. 



Senador Antonio Jose de Lemos. 



[Intendente of Para.] 



Dr. Joao Coelho. 



[Inaugurated Governor of Para February 

 1909.] 



Jose Simao da Costa. 



[Alves Braga Rubber Estates and Trading Co.] 



ing, I knew that one of these great excursion steamers had 

 arrived, for the advance guard of the army that would soon 

 overrun the city began to trickle in. They were a comely, 

 well-dressed, respectable lot, and I viewed them with much 

 interest. The self-conscious swagger (we are all afflicted 

 with it) that the men took on because they felt that many 

 strangers were looking at them in a foreign tongue, was 

 most exhilarating. The half-pitying glances that they cast 

 about were not contempt, but simply embarrassment. They 

 were wondering in their innermost recesses what the well- 

 dressed foreigners thought of these fine specimens of Ameri- 

 can manhood. And those foreigners, sitting erect over their 

 breakfasts, were probably wondering what the wealthy and 

 somewhat noisy Americans thought of the fine specimens of 

 Brazilian gentlemen that they saw for the first time. Both 

 were self-conscious to the last degree, only the Americans 

 showed it and the Brazilians did not. 



Having heard that Portuguese was the language of the 

 country, the tourists had a feeling that no one there under- 

 stood English, or at least not very well, and it came with 

 rather a shock to me that I was also without the pale. My 

 knowledge came this way. Two nice old chaps stopped in 

 front of me and one said: 



"Do you speak English?" 



"A leetle," was my reply. 



"Good! Well, we want to take a trolley ride and go as 

 far as we can. Understand? See?" 



"Si, Senor; you wish to go up in zee balloon. I can arrange 

 him." 



"No, no, don't do that. Not a balloon, a trolley car — goes 

 on rails," showing me in pantomime how an electric car ran, 

 and making a buzzing sound that was most illuminating. 



"He is off his trolley, yes?" I remarked engagingly to his 

 companion. Then, seeing he had left his sense of humor 



JOAQUIM GUILHERME GoNCALVES VlANNA. 

 [Junior partner of Mello & Co., Para.] 



A. J. HUTTON. 

 [With Gordon & Co., Para.] 



Antonio Rodrigues Alves. 



[Alves tiraga Rubber Estates and Trading Co.] 



