lyo Voyage of the Novara. 



The results of their labour remain, though they may them- 

 selves quit the country ! Foreigners man our ships, build our 

 manufactories, and supply them with hands; foreigners buy 

 our produce and carry it to distant markets ; foreigners render 

 our forests and rivers productive ; they work our mines, 

 uncover the metallic wealth of our country, and educate 

 our children ! Capital, practical science, instruments, and 

 machines, with which we perform our labours, belong mostly 

 to foreigners ; and, consequently, these blood-suckers are just 

 the very men who render our land productive, preserving, 

 instead of, as some erroneously imagine, depriving us of our 

 vitality. The money which they take back to their homes is 

 amply replaced by the treasures they leave behind in the 

 product of their labour, and in the branches of industry 

 which they have introduced or improved." * 



More explicitly and discerningly it was hardly possible for 

 Government to speak, and to enumerate the glorious results 

 which the country may expect from the introduction of 

 foreign industry and foreign activity, although such an official 

 avowal could not fail to wound the national pride of the Bra- 

 zilians. 



Notwithstanding this strong language of the Government, 

 and all the enticements and zealous activity of the Brazilian 

 agents in the various ports of Europe, the emigration to that 



* Of the sLxty-four manufactories and -workshops, twenty-eight belong to 

 foreigners ; and there is not a single industrial establishment in wliich foreigners 

 ai'e not employed, either as managers, engineers, or labourers. 



