The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-28
A Region Of Famine
and Drouth.
The Markets and Their Curl
GUS Products.
Wonderful Carnauba Palm Which
Lights and Clothes the People.
4 Ohat With . Missionary About His Mar.
row Escape From Death.

Copyrighted. 1899 by Frank q. Carpenter.
Forteiesa. Brasil. May 2. 1859,
- ORTEIAEZAf How many Amer..
cans have ever heard OF II? SIN.
- II - the center OF tho universe
TO Hn00o people. II II the CHIEF
city at the world To more than
million. II II the capital Of Ceara. and
C~arA In enc Of the most epterpristnK OF
the Brazilian states. You would not think
much Of person who had never heard OF
Ohio. This 10 the condition or ninetys
nine people out OF every hundred here,
They would think you equally ignorant
that you had net heard Of Ceara.
Ceara - a. big as Ohio but II has only
cne~fourth NJ snany people. II IL situated
go miles south az the equator. Just below
the Amasonfan forests and At the begin
ming Of the highlands Of Brazil. II II a
lard OF plains and mcuatains. Some Of lis
peaks arr from 800 Ia &cN feet high and
some OF lis plains are at times as bare
~ the desert of Sahara
where Fam,nc R~txns.
have stopped IN Ceara 20 give You
some idea Of IN. dry part 81 Rrasil In
the Amazon sssst north 81 here t rains
more than In any place else In the world.
Here IL - often - dry that everything
burns up and the land has famine.
The eoil % this region IL porous sand.
which needs water To make ~ produce
crops, and It's prosperity depends entirety
npon the rains.
The climate IL, 81 course. tropical There
are two seasons. One IL the winter. from
June until January. ana the ether the
summer from January untn jaue. Ia the
winter every thing Is dry and brown.
About p~eesnlsr The rains begin. and with
her magic brush nature fasx tae landscape
with iuxurssnt vegetation.
The ho. sun. however. demands thai
h.x< ~ txssw Il
cra. II there are rot heavy rains there
II a ar,ssssh saa such IroutNs have &C
Cured at ser.ssas intervals for l1ng
sErne. In fSTs mnS sS-s ceaFa wss AFFLICTED
eth q terrible d-&uts, succeeded ay ore
- the great taninss In history. Rlght
here under the shadow Of he equator
where everything grows without custiya 80
flon, people suffered because they eeags.
not ges salngs se syow. The famine
60 had ,sst siarsus * ere haif sae whole
population died ore hundred and Atty
Thousand people died un their march fr~sa
thu interior So TIE Sra sssass. Smallpox
ard ether diseases took away ~ sssa more
while is.0so sied ~ fever amt hers-tars.
There 81 n1w another famine here ans.
the people have been galnr north ans.
south ~ thousands The ship which I
shalt take from hwse ga ssse Amazon a
already loaded with shrsn Thousands
have sysee te Re ae Sane;ra asa FER
ItrfFsNs tf5T S12ks 3r8t&EttH& NaN2 SAf
have been allied
The government has Interested stseig Ia
The matter. ard IL Is aiding sse eeaese
g. places where they can gee work. Tse
famine has nCs csen nearly 81 Tad as that
81 ts@S bat i aas aess bad enough
City os tne~r Hwssta.
Fortwiesa - fair type 81 sae s;siss u
orge- SyasH- IL lee right 90 sse ccsss
without q rse- or lsaasns place 10 ats
yea In getting fFeEn tsa sAsp 90 the xnsye.
TheTS - practically M nsrssr - speak
-. Tss na4a casts seeassr Ear osss ard
yaa approach sae sAeFw "a ssasts whsa
yea kss wssssa several hGadswa fr~s II
II Ysa are rssg by ssals-askv snsF VITO
tssd eat th..- arms 80 You ard carry
saa IN saess ea 20 the gaFa TIE sha~,
Aasss - tat The epass cAsnss c0sns