Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

the warehouses at the wharves l saw sugar
piled UP like sand on the floors and in the
market place great quantities of tobacco
twisted up in ropes of all sizes from cables
to clotheslines. Tobacco is here sold by
weight, the customer directing how much Of
the twist he wants.
In this trip see more and more the extent
to which the negroes have intermixed with
the Brazilians. The majority of the half
million people of Algoas have eolored blood
In their veins, and of the town of Maceo
there are many more colored than white.
During my stay did not see a score of pure
whites although there were negroes in great
numbers. Little negro babies of 2 and
years sprawled upon the cobbestone streets.
Negro boys rode yellow mules loaded with
Kerosene oil cans slung to the sides of tne
animals in the original boxes in which they
were shipped from Philadelphia The cans
contained water, and such boys are the water
carriers of the city, who go from house to
! house selling water at about a half cent
4 gallon.
There We're many fat negro women on the
1 streets They walked along with immense
bundles on their heads, their bosoms pushed
to the front as full as that of the fat woman
in the dime museum. There were little
yellow girls and boys by the score going
to school and with them other girls and
boys of sallow white.
/ visited the market. It covers a square,
but the chief business seems to be done by
women and in many cases by old slaves
| The younger generation OF the colored race
are, as rule. shiftless, and the best of the
negro population is that which once served
as slaves.
The trade of the market was what a
| Connecticut Yankee would call a whiting
| business. Most things were sold by the
handful. The chief merchandise was man
dioca, rice, corn and beans. These are the
staple foods OF the people. The Brazilians
are, indeed, greater bean eaters than the
Bostonians The latter insist on having
beans Saturday and Sunday, while the Bra
zilians take their beans twice a day year
in and year out
Leaving Maceo We next stopped at Per-
nambuco, or / should say Recfe. There is
no such city in existence as Pernambuco.
That is the name of the state. The real
name of the city Is Recife. The word
"recife' means reef" and Recfe gets its
name from a wonderful reef which runs out
into the sea for distance of several miles
enclosing great natural dock, which forms
Its harbor. This reef is stone wall formed
by nature, enclosing tank less than half a
mile wide and several miles long The
wan ioth AT IoW llue is perhaps ten 1eel
above the water. At high tide 1t is almost
covered, but the Brazilans have built an
other wall on top of it, so that the sea
dashes itself against 1t in vain. / shall
never forget my ride into this harbor. There
was heavy sea outside and the waves
gnashed their teeth as they threw them
selves against the stone wall, splitting out
as it seemed, masses OF snow white foam in
their anger The spray was thrown thirty
feet into the air. 1t fell over into the
there and looked at 1t the sun came from
behind a cloud and made countless rainbowl
with every wave. 1t was, in fact, geysel
two miles long spouting up all colors. shades
and tints.
BraziPs Great Cotton Port.
Recfe is one OF the busiest ports OF Brazil
The city has about 100000 inhabitants. /
lies right on the sea, being cut up by arm
, of the ocean, so that it's people call It tn,
! South American Venice. 1t is busy port
, about 1000 ships coming into 1t every year
1t is the first place at which the steamer
. stop in coming to South America from
I Europe, and It has a vast trade, especiall,
? in cotton ana sugar. The state of Pernam
buco is about as large as New York. 1t is
! great cotton state. The cotton is raised ol
> small plantations. few farmers growing NOR
than two or three bales annually. Still tn
4 OUTPUT Is iGge. The lands are cultivate.