Erazil tlie land of conti'asts. — 



Appearance of the city of Rio 



and itsenvii'ons. — Excursion to 



the Peak of Corcovado, and the 



Tejuca Waterfalls. — Germans in Rio. — Brazilian Ute- 



raiy men. — Assacu [Hura Brasiliensis) . — Snake-bite 

 as an antidote against leprosy. — Public Institutions. — Negi-oes of the Mozambique 

 coast. — The House of Misericordia. — Lmiatic Asyliun. — Botanical Gai'den. — 

 Public instruction. — Historico-Geograpliical institution. — Palastra Scientifica. 

 — Military Academy. — Library. — Conservatory of Music. — Sanitary Police. 

 — Yellow Fever and Cholera. — Water Party on the bay. — Chamber of Deputies. — 

 Petropohs. ^Condition of the Slave population. — Prospects of German emigra- 

 tion. — Suitabihty of Brazil as a market for German commerce. — Natural products, 

 and exchange of manufactui'es. — Audience of the Emperor and Empress. — Extra- 

 vagant waste of powder for salvoes. — Songs of the sailors. — Departui'e from 

 Rio. — Retrospect. — South-east Trades. — Cape Pigeons. — Albatrosses. — Cape Tor- 

 mentoso. — A Storm at the Cape. — Various Methods of measuring the height of 

 waves. — Arrival in Simon's Bay. 



Brazil — situated on the ocean-highway to the South Seas and 

 the shores of India, endowed by nature, over the greater por- 

 tion of her territory, with a salubrious climate, and a soil of 

 tropical fertility, very nearly as large as Europe, and ten times 

 the size of France, and yet containing not above 8,000,000 

 souls — has, far beyond all other States of South America, con- 



