The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-02 00:00:00

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BIAZILIAS lkiritimilths,—The following lettsy hid
bees resolved by his friends from George Beth*. 'to
seslgrated from this pleas to Brasil. At the beefeater
of September It wee olreeatetaatlal/y rumoured that he
had dkd from a snake bite, but the date of thla letter,
(August 11th) precludes the probability of lush &Doom,.
&see being knows here lilt kid oseurred ef ter that
time :

I ins so glad to receive. letter from you. If I had been
going to receive a sovereign I should not have felt gladder, and
when you told moot sending the wheat. Flour is Sd. • pound.
. I often wish that I had got a lose of home-made bread and
butter, like I had in your home the last night I was at Winhith.
Dear Meter, I hope that by the Um. I can make some bees&
shall be able to make some butter myself. There are plead
,of cows at the Campos, that is three leognea-16
and grab grows well. Would you wed me • bit eloarrot seed,
' At , for what we brought out with us got wet In our bona
being ham smogs a great riveron mules, b.**. I never thot I
meld ride a hone or. mule, but I had to do so, and carry baby
In my arms, and go over the mountains three times higher
titan the church tower, going sonmsl and round where you
would think no bora could go, but the little mules
scramble on, so sure are they on their feet. Now
I will tell you about my farm and stock. I will begin with
the tat, for that in a eery lance animal bore, that is tame
there are wild ones, and tigers, and these steal our fowls. We
hare two greet dsge, and thew begin barking even' night as
soon w it Is dark to keep off the wild tale, and adders, and
wild pig. We can hear the wild pigs howl at night We hare
three Mee pigs (and two of them will have had little ones
before you get our letters), and 45 head of fowls and duets. We
often shoot a turkey or • duck, and a rabbit I should Eke you
to se* Brazilian potatoes. They are so long as your leg ! and
the greens are like great bushes. We set a pert of the Walk
again. I wish you bad got. load or two, or more, of the
beautiful piste Umber we are obibW to barn in waste It Ss
grown On our ground. We have thousan& of tone of It, end If
Mr Mortimer bad got one of the trews it would yield gin in
England. George weds his Modest love to Idr and Wm
Mortimer and all the family, and to Devil King and bb wife
and family, and to poor obi Fanny Mien, and tell her that I
with she ems near to me, *be should not went for beef, perk,
vie' or a nice voting fowl sontetimet Please to tell David
King that we have got 70 acres of lens!, and thousands' of loads
of beautiful wood, and that It in burned on the ground. It
make. our hearts ache to see It, and so mum poor friends
would be glad to have It In England Meese to give our
kindest love to Mr. and Mr. Toms, and tell her I shoal like a
cup of her English tea. for we du not get any out here, but
drink a herb that is gathered in the wood.. Coffee and sugar
grow here. We have got bottle '4entwi rice. George and Ned
are at work, and they get • pound • week and their food, and
they are gone tor a fortnight together : told Jack and • man
and sue are house, in the middle of. gnat wood, DA mike from
the Polooy of Aeanguay. The two boys have not done any
work except at hums. nom we left England A man can her,
Ms wife and funny with three months work In a year. I will
send you a Intim' in my next for cm to Sea our MOW,. A
mitre' is is. Id In English money.