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on the Uruguay side of the river. But in this district the chief market is Pelotas, 

 on the left bank of the Rio S. Gonçalo near its mouth in the Lagoa dos Patos. 

 Of all Brazilian towns Pelotas does the largest business in the came secca ("dried 

 meat ") industry. Here are annually slaughtered over 300,000 oxen (in 1890 as 



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many as 400,000), the jerked meat being exported chiefly to Pio, Bahia, and 



Pernambuco. This trade represents an average annual sum of about £1,200,000, 



exclusive of the offal used in the manufacture of soap, candles and manure. 



Facing each other on the banks of the Pio Grande emissary of the Lagoa dos 



Patos stand the two cities of S. José do Norte and Rio Grande do Sal, here 

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