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negative result, we felt rather in a fix as to how to explain 

 our wants. The youth, however, disappeared for a moment, 

 returning with a stout elderly gentleman, who asked us, 

 in an unmistakable German accent, what we wanted, telling 

 us that he spoke very little English, but that he understood 

 it pretty well, and that he would explain to the people of the 

 hotel (who, he said, would " trate " us very well) what we 

 wished. Thanking this good Samaritan for his timely assist- 

 ance, we told him that we wanted dinner in the first place, 

 and that we intended spending the morrow at St. Juiz, leaving 

 it next day for Entre Eios. All this he kindly undertook to re- 

 present, and before long we had sat down to a very good dinner 

 abounding in Brazilian dishes, including the universal Fe}^"a6s 

 e Farinha. After dinner we had a long talk with our friend, 

 who gave us a good deal of information about the place, which 

 stands about a hundred feet or more lower than Petropolis, 

 and, as I have already mentioned, is about a hundred miles dis- 

 tant from it. He informed us that a colony of twelve himdred 

 people of his nation were established at St. Juiz, some of them 

 being located in. the to^vTi, and others inhabitiag a neighbour- 

 ing village, Colonia, and said that he would have liked to have 

 shown us all that was worth seeing in the vicinity, but that 

 he was unfortunately obliged to go to Parahyba next day on 

 busiuess. He informed us that we ought to visit the chacara 

 or farm of a certain Don Mariano, the said chacara appearing 

 to be the lion of St, Juiz. In givLQcr us directions how to 

 proceed, he said, " You will go the gate of the chacara, and 

 you will say to the negro man at the gate, I ivill see the 

 chacara of Mariano." 



After enjopng a sound sleep after our long journey, we 

 got up next morning (27th) between seven and eight, the 

 youth of the night before, who seemed to be factotum of the 



