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country, in 185G, amounted to only 13,800 souls.* Among 

 this number there were but 628 agriculturists, all the others 

 coming merely with the view of obtaining a livelihood in the 

 capital as artizans and labourers. There are probably in all 

 the Brazilian agricultural colonies, at this moment, not more 

 than 40,000 emigrants settled, that is to say, about as many 

 as emigrate in the course of three months to the United 

 States I 



The number of Germans emigrating to Brazil is strikingly 

 small, when compared with the total annual emigration from 

 that country. Of 61,413 individuals, who, in 1856, embarked 

 from Hamburg and Bremen, only 1822 went to Brazil. The 

 cause of this may be that, simultaneously with the large promises 

 held out by the agents, warning voices were heard depicting 

 in the most gloomy colours the terrible trials that await the 

 unfortunate immigrant on his touching Brazilian soil.t Of 

 late such excellent works have been published concerning 

 Brazil, that we may advise all who take a special interest in 

 the condition of that empire to study these works, the more so 



t Namely: 9159 Portuguese, 1822 Germans, and 2819 of other nations. 



* Among these, the opposition of the late Consul- General for Brazil at Dresden, 

 ]Mr. John Sturz, deserves special mention, as, despite the threats of losing his ap- 

 pointment, that gentleman was incessantly occupied in exposing the iniquities of 

 the Parceria system (see^pos^), and recommending the immigrant, so long as such a 

 Bla^dsh system continued, to refi'ain from tui'ning his steps towards Brazil. Mr. 

 Sturz had recently the enviable misfortune of being sacrificed to his ot^ti strong 

 sense of justice, and dismissed from all emplojniaent bj' the Brazilian administration, 

 though not without carrying -with lum the respect and admii-ation of every friend of 

 hmnanity. An excellent and cu'ciunstantial description of the present condition of 

 the German colonies in southern Brazil will be found in Dr. Ave Lallcmaut's 

 attractive " Travels tlirough Southern Brazil in 1858." (Leipzig, 1859.) 



