Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-17

Manaos Brazil. April 90. i,o1-t want
to tcu you about the two chief cities OF
the Amazon valley % seems ODD 20
think of the savage Amazon having
cities at Az. but % o. really great
trade oontar nud Dc exports products
which arc worth tens 0f millions of dole
lars N year
The biggest city upon o Hes ut lta
mouth. u JED thousand miles east "
where this letter 8. written. 10 is the
city N pnra. 70 now has population
OF 100000 and 90 BE- growing h1 fast as
the dense vegetation by which % il sur
rounded.
Para already haa electric lights. tolo-
phones and street cnrs. no h1a % vast
thottor. two saUuud.CIls hotels ana un
amount of vice which would shock Pas
tor Parkhur.t and tho uef0rmeu ot
New York % hla numerous cafes Doc
some vi which striuE bands with woe
men performers rIrhtiy act ana ON the
main street 600 the very contor OF the
city Ia o. building known nH the High
L.fo Hotel" which 10 devoted b. ilf,
Of the lowest order This hotel uH
pronounced by the Portuguese iH called
the "Hlggy Llncy." Cor that Us the way
the Portuguese pronounce high life.
IN PARA.
Notwithstanding this wlokcdnoaa
rather like Para. The town has % very
respectable club. the members of which
give dances twice q week. and 90 which
II has some tine residence streets,
number Of beautiful parks. and were II
not for the fear NJ ihr yellow ieNor,
which always hangs over u, ne in u
would not be uncomfortable. AZ % ~,
nearly every foreigner lH in constant
dread 81 the fever. aud hllf the husls
ness men cnrry bottles of castor oil
about in their pne kgiH hnd down tum-
blerful ut The slightest head Inh' ur lu-
tlmation OF Indigestion. This Dr.. ! am
told the best remedy Tor immediate use
IN ease Of yellow fever attack.
iut lot me toll you how Para looks.
A. you Hco u from tho river u BE- q
low white city with red ana Other
bright Culorcd buildings rising out uf
the white. a long row OF palm tro1H
line the shore. and back W those ARE
the great wood and corrugated iron
warehouses from which The Para rub.
her Ia shipped 90 an parts M the world.
You look at this scene through u thick
ct ~ mnHtH. The Amazon BE- here filled
with shipping. There are big ocean
steamers from Europe ANA the United
States. There ore iron lighters shaped
much like the whale.hnck boats 90 the
lakes. There are scores ~ queer slll-
inF vessels and hundreds of duE1ut
canoes. with dsrk-faccd boatmcn pad
ding them 10 and fro.
A STREET SCENE.
a. you land you md yourself In ono
OF the busiest Of the South American
ports. Negroes and mulaitoes are load
Inc ana unloading tho steamers. They
are carrying on board great boxes "
rubber. They are tutlng on their nehds
boxes and bales 10 tho shore The
crowd about the wharvcs 10 much the
same nn that on tho docks OF Now Or
leans, The people are uf all shades N
white, yellow and black. There are
awarthy negroes from Jamaica, yellow
skinned men from upper Brazil Hlllpw
Poriuguesc ana a sprinkllng OF an tho
nations Of Europe.
The laboring people are IN their bare
feet ana most ~ theiu are blru-headnd.
The mon wear cotton shirts ana
trousers. the latter hold up by waist
bands. Tho women dress On hrlrht-col.
orcd cnllcuH, See that negro trotuug
along with a bale of sole leather on HIS
hond1 Behind him BE- woman carrying
great basket " maudluca IN the same
way, and further back yaWoH % mulatto
with au enormous turtle balanced upon
his crown. That turtle IL al big around
as a wash tub. n kicks out NE LEGS
and ngonIEiuFiy thnats forth lts head
as Il lies there upside down shading the
man
Hero comes o. cart hauled by n pony.
n looks hH though it had load OF hams
In u, and nH 10 goes hy the hams smell
like a smoke house. Those are lump.