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so ‘ THE AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS. 
On our way over the dr}^ Campos to the Pueblo, distant about 
a mile and a quarter from the port, we met, soon after its roofs had eonie 
in sight over the dense foliage of some tamarinds, a few Indian 
women, who greeted us in their own language in a peeiiliarly quiet, 
not unfriendly way, quite then own. The literal trauslation of this 
gi-eeting is; “Well! have you arrived?” — and its proper answer, a 
I'lndienne^ is a long-di*awn Ilm ' There is a Portixguese saying 
“ Cada rooa seu fuso ; 
Cada terra seu uso.” 
(Each distaff its spindle; 
Each country its use.) 
and so we will not deride the poor Mojos for their greeting, queer as 
it sounds. 
The first impression of the Pueblo is rather a dreary one ; large, 
grass-grown streets bordered by mouldering house-posts, showing the 
former importance of the j)laec, and leading to a lonely Plaza in the 
centre of the regularly-planned site. The low white-washed cottages 
have all, both in the Plaza and in the side streets, far-projecting roofs, 
supported by wooden columns, and so forming a continuous vcrandali. 
Only a few of them show the luxury of a small Avindow, shut Avith 
a wooden grate ; the rest have no opening but the door. 
One side of the Plaza, which is about 330 feet in length, is 
entirely occupied by the Church, Avith an isolated campanile, and the 
former Collegium of the reverend I’adres, which boasts a large verandah 
as Avell on the ground-floor as on the second story. The projecting 
roof of the gable-side of the chinch rests on four nicely-carved Avooden 
columns, and serves the double purpose of forming an airy, spacious 
hall, and of protecting against rain the gaudy paintings of the facade, 
which is of adohe (sun-dried brick) like the Avhole range of buildings. 
Although these do not answer all the requirements of architectural 
beauty, yet it must be OAvned that the fathers of the Society of Jesus 
made the most of such poor material, and erected therewith edifices 
which have resisted the storms of a century and a half, and have 
been Avell adapted to their needs and to the climate. To tliis day, a 
hundi’cd years after that other jiOAverful storm, Ai^hich for ever deprived 
the Jesuits of their Missions in Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia, together 
Avith all their rich incomes, these buildings could have been as Avell 
preserved as if they had been of stone, if Spanish indolence had not 
