[30] So named in honor of the president of the state at the time, Dr. Araujo Brusque.
[31] Information furnished by E. Bloch, Engenheiro Chefe da Estrada de Ferro Santa Catharina.
[32] Grossi, p. 162.
[33] Cf. Ludwig, p. 84.
[34] A particularly strong current of German settlers has in recent years been moving into Ijuhy, mostly by indirect immigration.
[35] Cf. report of the inspector C. Lila da Silveira in Relatorio.
[36] About equal to that of the United States without the colonies and Alaska, but with the state of Texas doubled.
[37] The study of emigration reports in European archives does not help us much because by no means did all persons listed as emigrants for Brazil finally arrive in the latter country.
[38] In order to enable the reader to put a correct valuation on the popular bugaboo, the "perigo allemão" (German peril), the following facts are noted by way of comparison:
According to the statistics above referred to, the German immigrants occupy fourth place in point of numbers for the period 1820-1915, inclusive. They are superseded by: