Chapter XIX
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CHAPTER XIX.
SANTOS, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—RICHARD'S SECOND CONSULATE.
We explore Portugal—I rejoin him at Rio de Janeiro—Arrival at Santos and São Paulo—Life in Brazil—Brazilian life—Life at Rio—The Barra for contrast—To the mines in Minas Gerães—We go down the big mine—Below—Chico and I start on a fifteen days' ride alone—The landlord of the hotel is mystified—Richard dangerously ill—Mesmerizing—Regatta—We leave Brazil—Richard goes south—Lord Derby gives Richard Damascus—His carbine pistol—Pleasant days in Vichy and Auvergne—The Fell Railway—Geographical disagreeables—Work—The Nile—Still the Nile—I sail for Damascus.