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of failure going side by side with the larger 

 stream of success. Unless there is revolution 

 ary disorder and anarchy, the future holds for 

 southern Brazil much what half a century ago 

 the future held for large portions of our country 

 lying west of the Mississippi. 



In southern Brazil the forest landscape 

 through which we passed was very beautiful. 

 The most conspicuous tree in the forest was the 

 flat-topped pine, the shaft of which rose like 

 that of a royal palm. The branches spread 

 out at the top just where the palm-leaves 

 spread out on the palm, only instead of droop 

 ing they curved upward like the branches of a 

 candelabra. There were many other trees in 

 the forests which I could not recognize or place. 

 Some of them looked like our Southern live- 

 oaks. Then there were palms, and multitudes 

 of big tree-ferns. In places where these tree- 

 ferns grew thickly among the tall, strange can 

 delabra pines, with palms scattered here and 

 there, and other queer ancient tropical plants, 

 the landscape looked as if it had come out of 

 the carboniferous period at least as the car 

 boniferous period was represented in the at 

 tractive popular geologies of my youth. There 

 were flowers in the woods, of brilliant and 

 varied hue, although we saw but few orchids; 



