[22] Brazil, Pierre Denis, South American Series.

[23] Brazil, op. cit.

[24] Brazil, op. cit.

[25] This is not the case among the business and commercial circles of Rio and San Paolo, where many of the women are educated in Paris and visit it yearly.—[Trans.]

[26] Brazil, op. cit.

[27] Besides being grown in the great sugar centres, the sugar-cane is a staple crop in Brazil. It is most often used, not for the manufacture of sugar, which calls for a costly plant, but for the production of an alcohol, or sometimes a crude kind of sugar known as rapa dura, which is sometimes a kind of molasses, sometimes a sticky cake-sugar.

[28] Brazil, op. cit.

[29] Brazil, op. cit.

[30] Brazil, op. cit.

[31] Brazil, op. cit.