Part 7 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link book Part 7 14/24 Three 'rickshas, but we couldn't get them--apparently private. These Portuguese are a rich brown, like some of the Indians. Some of the blacks have the long horse beads and very long chins of the negroes of the picture books; but most of them are exactly like the negroes of our Southern States round faces, flat noses, good-natured, and easy laughers. The quiver of their leg as the foot was planted and the strain exhibited by their bodies showed what a tax upon their strength the load was. |