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TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON. 
He had about fifty slaves, of all ages, and about as 
many Indians, employed in his cane- and rice-fields, and 
and caxa^a, but most of the latter, as it paid best. 
make good locks for doors and boxes, and tin and *' ■ 
slaves and Indians working together he was enabled 
to get more work out of the latter than by any other 
system. Indians will not submit to strict rules when 
working by themselves, but when with slaves, who have 
regular hours to commence and leave ojff work, and stated 
tasks to perform, they submit to the same regulations 
and cheerfully do the same work. Every evening at 
sunset aU the workpeople come up to Senhor Calistro to 
say good-night or ask his blessing. He was seated in 
an easy chair in the verandah, and each passed by with 
a salutation suited to his age or station. The Indians 
would generally be content with “ Boa noite’’ (good 
night) ; the younger ones, and most of the women and 
children, both Indians and slaves, would hold out their 
hand, saying, '' Sua bengao’’ (your blessing), to which he 
would reply, “ Heos te bencoe’' (God bless you), making 
at the same time the sign of the Cross. Others — and 
these were mostly the old Negroes — would gravely re- 
peat, Louvado seja o nonie do Senhor Jesu Christo’’ i 
(blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus ^Christ), to which 
he would reply, with equal gravity, ‘'Para senipre” (for ^ 
ever). vJ 
in the mills, and on board his canoes. He made sugar 
Every kind of work was done on the premises : he had 1 8 ’ 
shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, smiths, boat-builders, and J ’ i 
masons, either slaves or Indians, some of whom could j 
copper articles of all kinds. He told me that by having 
