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view all around and down into the bay is superb. The 

 wonder is how the people live in these hill-side houses 

 with any degree of comfort, or how tradesmen ever reach 

 them. An ordinary landslide would carry dozens of 

 them away like a pack of cards. Our taxi-man was 

 more careful than most in these parts, and we got back 

 to the ship successfully, and an hour or two later we 

 landed again to dine at the Jockey Club. Now here 

 is the point of interest, which shows what courtesy is 

 extended in Brazil to visitors. We were at once, on 

 arrival at the club, told that the President, Senor Linneo 

 de Paula Machado, wished us to dine with him, and we 

 were ushered into his room. He received us in the 

 most courteous and hospitable fashion, and he is himself 

 a really good sort, talking English well, and immensely 

 interested in blood stock. With him we dined wisely 

 and well in the open-air roof dining-room, and nothing 

 would satisfy him but that we should come back to 

 breakfast with him next day, and before that be driven 

 out to see the old race-course and some of his horses 

 in training. 



RACING IN BRAZIL 



This also we did. The horses in training are not 

 his best, most of which are at San Paulo, and others 

 are in France, but the experience was very interesting. 

 The race-course is barely a mile round, and a new one is 

 being, or about to be, made ; but that necessitates the 

 filling up of the bed of an old lake, and it will take 

 considerable time no doubt. It is obvious, however, that 

 racing in Brazil is on the up-grade. Breakfast at the 

 Jockey Club was all that the most confirmed epicure could 

 desire, and I have never been treated with more genuine 



