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beyond Monteiro, the village at which my new 

 acquaintance was now residing. It overflows 

 its banks in the rainy season, oftentimes with 

 great rapidity. As the lands through which it 

 runs in this part of the country are very low, 

 the floods are somewhat dreaded, as they oc- 

 casionally extend far and wide. The straw 

 hovels upon its banks are often carried away, 

 and the whole neighbourhood is laid under 

 water : canoes have been known to ply between 

 this village and those of P090 da Panella and 

 Caza Forte. 



A Portuguese friend, with whom I had been 

 acquainted in England, having taken a house at 

 the former of the two last-mentioned places, 

 I agreed to share the expense of it with him," 

 and we immediately removed to it, to pass the 

 summer months. The village was quite full ; 

 not a hut remained untenanted ; and, as occurs 

 in England at watering-places, families, whose 

 dwellings in town are spacious and handsome, 

 regardless of inconvenience, came to reside 

 here during the summer in very small cottages. 

 The P090 da Panella contains a chapel, built 

 by subscription, a row of houses running parallel 

 with the river, several washer-women's huts in 

 front of them, and other dwellings scattered 

 about in all directions. Here the ceremonious 

 manners of the town are thrown aside, and ex- 

 changed for an equal degree of freedom. Our 



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