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THE STEEETS. 
overhanging upper stories, JMestics, who are the off- 
spring of a white father and an Indian mother ; 
Mulattoes, half white and half Negro, not so prepos- 
sessing in their appearance as the former ; Creoles, 
born of Negroes and Brazilians ; pure jet black, 
woolly-haired Negroes from Africa ; Caribocoes, half 
Negro and half Indian ; Indians, or aborigines of 
Brazil, a poor, ugly, and degenerate face ; and lastly, 
not the least important j)art of the population, the 
pure Brazilians, who are Portuguese born in Brazil. 
Perambulation is by no means easy or agreeable 
in the muddy streets, which have no pavements or 
side-paths. They are mostly occupied by Negroes, 
who are busy everywhere, many of them doing the 
work of horses. Cariying heavy burdens on their 
backs they trot along, keeping time to a kind of 
grunting chorus j)Gculiarly their own. A few 
lumbering old carriages may be sometimes seen 
making their way, with difficulty, along streets 
which are by no means favourable to locomotion. 
The novel and curious spectacle is diversified by 
a considerable number of soldiers lounging idly 
