Note 2 — HUNTING A HOME IN BRAZIL.

This discount upon United States money is practised very often upon strangers by those occupying other positions than hucksters, but a dollar in gold or silver coin of the United States will command two millreas of Brazilian money in most respectable business establishments of Rio de Janeiro, and is generally valued at this rate by exchange brokers. Upon this standard one dump is worth two cents, and I should have received twelve dumps and a half for my quarter instead of the ten which were given. It will save the reader who may go to Rio more than the price of this book, to keep in mind what is stated in this note.