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leaving the shade, and everywhere meet with cheerful, 

 simple, and hospitable people. 



Soon after landing I was introduced to the most dis- 

 tinguished citizen of the place, Dr. Angelo Custodio 

 Correia, whom I have already mentioned. This excel- 

 lent man was a favourable specimen of the highest 

 class of native Brazilians. He had been educated 

 in Europe, was now a member of the Brazilian Par- 

 liament, and had been twice President of his native 

 province. His manners were less formal, and his good- 

 ness more thoroughly genuine, perhaps, than is the rule 

 generally with Brazilians. He was admired and loved, 

 as I had amjDle opportunity of observing, throughout all 

 Amazonia. He sacrificed his life in 1855, for the good 

 of his fellow-townsmen, when Cameta was devastated 

 by the cholera ; having stayed behind with a few heroic 

 spirits to succour invalids and direct the burying of the 

 dead, when nearly all the chief citizens had fled from the 

 place. After he had done what he could, he embarked 

 for Para, but was himself then attacked with cholera 

 and died on board the steamer before he reached the 

 capital. Dr. Angelo received me with the usual kind- 

 ness which he showed to all strangers. He procured 

 me, unsolicited, a charming country house, free of rent, 

 hired a mulatto servant for me, and thus relieved me 

 of the many annoyances and delays attendant on a first 

 arrival in a country town where even the name of an 

 inn is unknown. The rocinha thus given up for my 

 residence belonged to a friend of his, Senhor Jose Rai- 

 mundo Furtado, a stout florid-complexioned gentleman, 

 such a one as might be met with any day in a country 



