RIO DE JANEIRO. 



35 



The Brazilian portion of the company were 

 prodigiously eager to partake of them — few 

 having tried the experiment before. They were 

 evidently novices, from the way in which they 

 set about the operation. One man, in par- 

 ticular I observed, first biting the ice with his 

 teeth. The agony this caused induced him, on 

 the second attempt, to thrust the spoon half- 

 way down his throat, for fear of being frost- 

 bitten again. 



I have been once to walk about the city, 

 The heat, together with the mauvais odeur of 

 the crowded black population, render an ex- 

 cursion of this sort any thing but agreeable. 

 In fact, in so hot a country as this, people 

 should forget they have legs at all, and should 

 either ride, or use a carriage, if they ever make 

 up their minds to quit a sofa. 



I was struck, as at Madeira, with the want 



