Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

cried Justify, looking, in its nakedness. the
personification Of grief
Speaking of hammocks, they are slung
everywhere on the decks of the shin They
are tied to the rigging one above the other
like the hunks in an Atlantic liner Every
hammock has two or three persons in it,
sometimes the hammock contains a man and
his wife, sometimes mother and her chill
dren. The poorest of the crowd sleep on the
hoor. They have no Seats and men, women
and children sprawl about the deck in all
sorts of positions all day and all night.
They eat on the deck, squatting at their
meals more like animals than men, Each
family has a round tin bowl of the shape of
sieve. This is filled with a mixture of
rice, mandioca and meat AS a general
thing they eat with their fingers, although
sometimes family has one or two spoons,
one knife and one fork.
Queer Table Manners
And what do we first class passengers eat
and how do we eat it? Well, we have
| plenty of food. and If the marble and gold
walls of the dining saloon could make it
taste good there would be no lack of ap-
petite. l am, however. something of an old
maid in my tastes Perhaps / am becom-
ing snob / don't know. At any rate
cannot get used TO the table ways of these
mddle-class Brazllians. 1t disturbs me
when the negro woman who sits beside me
at the table goes fishing in the mixed pickle
bottle for little onions with the fork she has
| just been using, and, having caught several
and eaten them, passes the bottle across the
! table to her fat Brazilian grandma, who acts
the same way. / can't get used to seeing
the strips of guava jelly for dessert being
! picked UP by the girl on my left on her
toothpick and thus transferred to her plate,
nor do like the way some young men have
of putting their toothpicks In their oily
! hair just over the ears, where our book
| keepers carry their pens to bring them out
at the close of the following course. !
don't much like the use of the toothplcks by
all the passengers between the courses and
| am prone to frown as l see the toothpich
holder passed from person to person in order
that all may clean their teeth after the fish
and steak. The other day / saw a man
take a toothpick out of the holder, put 1t
back OF his little girls ear for time and
then return 1t to the holder, in order that
i 1t might be ready for some one else. The
man who did this was evidently rich, for,
| although his shirt showed signs of much
wear it was sprinked with diamond studs
and precious stones of assorted coors. He
had diamond pin in his black string neck
tie and also diamond rings.
As to the meals themselves we have foul
a day The first Is at 6 o'clock. IT con-
sists OF tea or coffee and a cracker. Al
$3.50 there 10 a breakfast, which is much
like dinner In it's number OF courses, and
at 4:30 comes dinner. At tea is served
The breakfast begins with a soup, then fol-
lows fish or meat fritters, then braised bee.
and vegetables. There is always a bowl o.
farna or roasted mandioca found on the
table. This is sprinkled over the meat by
some Of the guests. The Brazilians like it
but ii tastes like sawdust to me, There Il
aso mixture of dried beef and black beans
cooked up in a stew and tongue served II
different ways. The dessert is usually guav;
jelly, Edam cheese. oranges and bananas
} The dinner bill is just about the same, tn,
, courses being almost entirely Of meats.
From Rio To Pernambuco.
Our first port OF call after leaving Rio wa
, the town Of Victoria, the capital of the littl
; state of Esperto Santo. Next we came L
Bahia, where | stopped for some time an
> then made my way north on the same lin
r to Maceo and at last to this city OF Recife
. or. as 1t is generally called, Pernambuco
I Maceo is a pretty. bright colered town o
about $4,000 people the capital OF the stat
7 of Algoas.
4 Algoas is about as big as West Virglni
and II has about as many people to tn
y square mile as Maine, 1t is an agrieultura
state, raising sugar, cotton aud tobacco. i