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This book came to us at the right moment. It shows how 

 Brazil, the greatest of all American countries, is, practically 

 speaking, the least developed, and it also shows in 

 Chapter II what steps have been taken by Germany to 

 try and colonize Brazil. When one hears how these men 

 have been behaving over there, Brazil can well be thankful 

 that the European War came when it did, to show her 

 patriots what an enemy she had in her midst, and how 

 harmful they meant to be, and can still become (with a 

 few noteworthy exceptions), if steps are net taken to expel 

 the dangerous and undesirable element as speedily as 

 possible, and keep the others in order. 



The lirst official, deliberate importation of colonists to 

 Brazil, we are told (p. 56), began in 1817 with some Swiss 

 settlers. A second batch brought no less than 342 Germans. 

 Germany at this period had not begun her industrial 

 expansion which later kept all her people at home, and so, 

 for about twenty-five years, she became the largest shipper 

 of settlers to Brazil. 



The second official colony, that in Rio Grande do Sul, 

 was started in 1825, and consisted entirely of Germans. 

 That Colony is now reported to have developed into one 

 of the chief towns of the State, with 40,000 inhabitants. 

 Its establishment was followed rapidly by that of Tres 

 Forquilhas and S. Pedro de Alcantara, in Rio Grande, 

 both German settlements. Then came, in 1826, S. Pedro 

 in Sta. Catharina, and, in 1828, Rio Negro in Parana, 

 formed by disbanded German soldiers. Petropolis, the 

 model city in the hills above Rio, was founded by Germans 

 and Swiss. German colonizers created the Sta. Isabel 

 Colony, down South, in 1845, and started five new centres 

 in Rio Grande between 1849 and 1850. In 1850 Blumenau, 

 in Sta. Catharina, was founded by Herr Blumenau of 

 Brunswick, as German a centre as Hamburg itself from 

 all accounts. Today Blumenau is a hustling city, with 

 50,000 inhabitants and a big trade. Then came the 

 "Colonizing Union" of Hamburg, which established a 

 fine town at Joinville, with a population to-day of 25,000, 

 and, later, Mucury in Minas; so there must be at least 

 half a million people in Brazil who are pro-German in 

 birth, breeding and sympathy, and believe that the cause 

 of the Fatherland should come before all.' The author 



' The authoress says 250,000, but as she owns that 128,830 Germans 

 are known to have entered Brazil, and as we believe in the saying, " Once 

 a German, always a German," we are sure that our estimate is nearer the 



