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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

CHAPTER VIII
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In front, the entrance-door gave immediate access to the common room.

A light veranda, resting on slender bamboos, protected the exterior from the direct action of the solar rays.

The whole was painted a light-ocher color, which reflected the heat instead of absorbing it, and kept down the temperature of the interior.
But when the heavy work, so to speak, had been completed, Minha intervened with: "Father, now your care has inclosed and covered us, you must allow us to arrange our dwelling to please ourselves.

The outside belongs to you, the inside to us.

Mother and I would like it to be as though our house at the fazenda went with us on the journey, so as to make you fancy that we had never left Iquitos!" "Do just as you like, Minha," replied Joam Garral, smiling in the sad way he often did.
"That will be nice!" "I leave everything to your good taste." "And that will do us honor, father.


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