It takes one thousand reis to make a dollar, and all financial estimates are made in reis.

We did not know this until after we had found it out through Blucher.

Blucher said he was so happy and so grateful to be on solid land once more that he wanted to give a feast--said he had heard it was a cheap land, and he was bound to have a grand banquet.

He invited nine of us, and we ate an excellent dinner at the principal hotel.

In the midst of the jollity produced by good cigars, good wine, and passable anecdotes, the landlord presented his bill.