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Following the Equator
Part 7

CHAPTER LXIV
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No carriages.

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.
Flocks of black women passed along, carrying outrageously heavy bags of freight on their heads.

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.


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