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Padre Pinto with her family. Her husband is a collector 

 of inland revenue. Next to Joaquim Ribeiro lives Fran- 

 cisco, the man with a glass eye, brother of John Baptist. 

 Passing another large shop, the abode of Senhor Espiridiao 

 Ribeiro de Oliveira, and a new house in course of construc- 

 tion, we reach the " Juiz direitor," the judge, Dr. Amador ; 

 and opposite to him lives the Advocate Randolpho Fab- 

 rino. We then arrive at the church, which is on the highest 

 ground, the street ascending from my house to this point. 

 From the churchyard, which is surrounded in the ordinary 

 way by a low wall, is a grand view of the valley, extending 

 for miles, with the Ouro Branco Mountains in the distance. 

 John Baptist's house, of two stories, and one of the finest 

 in the village, is opposite the church ; and on the other side 

 of the road, which at the church widens out to some hun- 

 dred yards, lives Joao, the brother of Joaquim Ribeiro. 

 Further on resides the Public Prosecutor. Beyond this the 

 street falls and gradually narrows, all the houses (with the 

 exception of the one next to Joclo Ribeiro, where lives a 

 dear old gentleman, Commendador Jose Joaquim d'Oliveira 

 Penna) are one storied and insignificant, most of them 

 being huts. Our chief resides in a large roomy house 

 further on. At the extreme northerly end of the village, 

 near the cemetery, are four or five fine houses, at present 

 uninhabited. They were in a very bad state of repair 

 when I first came here last July, but John Baptist is now 

 doing them up, and one of them he intends to be a 

 Grand Hotel when the railway is opened. 



After passing these last houses, the road descends 

 rapidly over a barren red waste to the Rio Brumado, on the 

 banks of which will be our station, some half-mile away 

 from the town. Dr. Rebougas was telling me the other 

 day his arrangements for the passenger traffic on the line, 

 which are as follows : 



