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to do. My impressions, however, derived from my 
own personal acquaintance with so remote and 
fragmentary a portion of Brazil as the Amazon 
valley, should by no means be taken as applying 
to the whole of that vast empire. The Portuguese 
race have hung together wonderfully in South 
America, and if they continue to do so who 
can doubt that they have a great destiny before 
them ? 
If I cannot say much in favour of the Amazon 
folk, as a whole, I retain a pleasant and affectionate 
remembrance of many individuals among them, 
both natives and foreigners. I do not know that 
I have anywhere in the world met with a more 
gentlemanly, well-educated, and honourable man 
than Dr. Campos, the Juiz de Direito at Santarem. 
Thoroughly urbane, both in his public and private 
capacity, he was yet well known to be inaccessible 
to a bribe ; whereas his predecessors in office had 
been notorious for the opposite quality. Com- 
munity of taste brought us together as much as 
my very limited leisure would allow. He was an 
ardent student of mathematics, and my familiarity 
with some branches of that science enabled me (he 
said) to render him valuable aid. In the course of 
our conversations on general subjects I found him 
well acquainted with English and French literature, 
and from the original sources. 
I had no other friend among the Brazilians so 
intimate as Dr. Campos. Among the foreign 
residents there was no pleasanter fellow or better 
friend than Abraham Bendelak, a Jew of Tangier, 
who sought us out soon after our arrival at 
Santarem, was ever ready to render us a service, 
