The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

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from the nearby quarries of the MORO de
Gloria. The island OF Villegagnon, which
lies almost in front of the entrance to the
bay, its quadrilateral fort protected by
water batteries, well armed with modern
guns, was the site of the first settlement of
Rio de Janeiro in 1866. After permission
has been given by the autocrats of the Gus
tom house for free practique with the
shore. the mails are first disembarked; and
then the steamer proceeds TO the upper
anchorage, where the passengers and their
luggage are discharged.
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS
are at orce put on board, who remain night
and day at their posts until the steamer is
again ready for sea. All baggage is sent
directly to the custom house, near the Caes
dos Minerros, where passengers can claim
II at any time between am. and pm.
Nothing can be passed on board without
special permission, not even your handbag
or shawl strap. 1t is wise plan to pack
the few things needed for day or two into
a grip sack and leave the trunks to their
late until you are established in hotel and
equal to- engaging in the customary wrestle
at the Caes. One should remember that
passports are required, both on entering
pany is permitted to sell ticket to for
eigner until his passport has been properly
viewed at the Central police station. For
that no charge is made. though the passport
cost dollar at the department of state at
washington, and another dollar for the
oath before notary that you are MOI some
body elsa specimen of ''red tape' equal
to that which compels needy females who
are SO fortunate as to secure a 15-clerkship
In Uncle SANS treasury to make oath
and pay for the same-that they have
never borne arms against the govern
ment." Recently Rios police authorities
have adopted regulation requiring a con-
sular wise before their own, and this in
wolves slight expense.
There is also port regulation which for
bids any communication with vessels in the
harbor after p m. without a special per-
NIT. Therefore, if you are unacquainted
with
THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
and have gone ashore merely for look
about town, you would better keep your
eye on your watch and not put faith in the
rosy lights that linger long on the mountain
tops after the sun has disappeared-unless
you want to spend some uncomfortable
hours In prison and require the services of
the United States consul in the morning;
and meanwhile the ship may sail away
without you.
Passengers will find no difficulty in find
ing boats 10 take them ashore, for as soon
as steamer stops it is surrounded by them
like flies around molasses barrel. The
lilo boatmen drive a roaring trade at all
seasons. and Il is one of their numerous
practices to land passengers for moderate
sum and then refuse to take them back I'M
til the helpless travellers have, in effect,
transferred to them a chattel mortgage OF
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at that moment possessed. The boatmen
have the best OF it every time, being in
league with one another, especially when
their victims have acted as passeng ers gen
orally do and staid on shore until the very
last minute before the ship is to sail The
common price, each way, is 1000 reis,
though two passengers are often carried on
the one fare. The law requires all boats to
be mum bered and registered, as are all the
public vehicles and neutrality-suspicious.
in the city; and it is well to make note
Of these in case any misunderstanding
shall arise.
While we fingered on the massive stone
dock that lines the water front of Rio we
noticed
A VERY CURIOUS STEAM YACHT
close by, painted white, with open galleries
and strange flag flying. We wondered
did not inquire, there being none but Por-
tugese-speaking people on hand. Presently
an ambulance drove down to it, and litter
with sick man on it was hauled out by
some uniformed persons and put on board.
Every body fell back with most surpris-
ing show of respect everybody but our
selves; we wanted to see what was going
ou-utter silence fell for moment upon
the noisy throng, and thought within my.
Golf I Nr-ho loof
display so little intrusive curiosity. Was
1t some member of the royal family-some
noble but invalid relative of the late Dom
Pedro going out for an airing
! in his private yacht! Just then the
Purser, looking somewhat pale, came hur-
rying up. For heavens sake" ne cried,
"Why didn't you get out of the way when
that thing went by" ''What thing we in
nocently asked. "Why the hospital yacht
to be sure, loaded down to the guards with
smallpox and yellow fever
The first place on shore that a foreigner
| generally seeks is the establishment oil
some money changer, in order to CONVEX,
his American gold or English sovereigns
or the coin of the last country he visited
into the circulating medium" of Brazil
And very much astonished will he be when
the changer hands over huge pile of meta
copper, brass, iron and nickle, that looks
like old pewter plates, stove-lids and tht
| ponderous brass tags that landlords some
times attach TO doorkeys to prevent then
from being carried off in the pockets o.
their patrons. A very few American dol
lars, exchange added, when converted into
the currency CT this country, requires {
cart, rather than pocket-book, in which Il
take it away. Brazil still adheres to the
absurd old Portuguese system of financia
enumeration, in which it takes two thou.
sand refs to make what we call half dol
lar the word ''reis" being the plural o.
real. When reis are at par, one hundred o.
them are worth about five cents American
money. What a hard time of it Brazilian
| book-keepers must have. with the Ions
lines of figures which represent the ordl.
nary commercial tran sactions of n banking
or mercantile house. For example, a real
the unit of the monetary system, is writ
| ten 0S00l and is equal to the value OF one
twentieth of the United States cent. There
is no such coin in circulation, the smallest
being 10 refs.
THERE is A COPPER COIN
of 20 refs, and nickle coin of 100 reis, and an
other of 200 reis. Next comes the paper
money in notes of GOO reis, called milreis.
There are two miIreis, five, ten twenty,
thirty, fifty and one hundred, to a maxi
mum of five hundred milreis, numerically
expressed this way-500S000. Then there
is an imaginary denomination named a
contc, which means a thousand milreis,
and is expressed in paper 1000s. The par