Show I ODD LIFE IS BRAZIL How the Royal Family Received Honors by Proxy INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTRY 2r Black and Tan the Prevailing ColorThe BarrelBun Indians and the lSobeader PAPA Brazil Sept 10 1892 Special correspondence of THE HEHALD The great annual Corteja during the days of the empire was the chief social event of the year in every city Up to tho last few months of pretended republicanism corte Jas always occurred on Dom Pedros birthday birth-day and might also be given on every anniversary of his ascension to the throne or on the natal days of any member of the royal family from away back to Pedro I or grandfather King Jeao as pleasure loving folk In the United States celebrate Washingtons birthday Saint Patricks the Fourth of July and divers other occasions occa-sions by balls et cetera But in Brazil there is a deal more flummery about it and I decidedly more of manworship than would be tolerated In the landof the free It was I well enough when the kind old emperor I i himself received the homage of his people i but In places remote from the capital t where he was obliged to receive it by proxy so to speak the ceremonies war almost barbaric CKLEBHAT1OS OF THE EMPRESS BIUTHDAT It is only a vorv little time a few days before the recent fall of the empire that I I a ceremonious corteja was held in this enlightened en-lightened city of Para in honor of Empress Theresas birthday Tho president of the province issued elaborately gottcnup invitations in-vitations bidding all the foreign consuls 1 Kuu iucui auiuunuen > uu uuurcuuigniitincs and prominent citizens generally and the failure of an Invited person to attend would have been looked upon as equivalent equiva-lent to declaring himself at outs with the ruling powers According to universal custom on these gala days the consuls appear ap-pear In their uniforms the president and officers of the army and navy in full regimentals I regi-mentals the archbishop in his robes priests in the habits of their respective I orders judges In their sombre toggery members of the corporation in their quaint I dresces and the crowd at civilians in black f dress suits decorated with all the badges r and stars and crosses and ribbons they could muster for the occasion whether earned inherited or borrowed As usual the ceremony began with a To f0 Deum in the cathedral after v > hich the gorgeous but motley assemblage marched in solemn procession to the Palaclo beaded by a military band playing na tiousl airs Arrived at the palace the president led the way up a flight of stairs find paused before a heavy curtained door until an alddecamp dramatically pushed EEide the portler and Invited the company to enter the chamber of state Then all filed Into a long room hung with green and cold Lighted by a line of windows overlooking si over-looking the river richly curtained with fIi green and gold damask looped with bul 0 A hon At the further end of the hall under j D E superb canopy of green and gold fronted i I > oJ f by an elevated dias stood the only articles of furniture in the immense chamber of statetwo lifesized portrait more or leas works of art by native artists of Dom Pedro II and the empress The president of the province prov-ince solemly took hIs stand upon one side of tho pictures and the archbishop on the other side flanked by such lesser dignitaries digni-taries as the chief justice the generalat arms commander of the national guard etc Then with gravest formality for-mality the procession advanced single file down the canter of the room tho consuls con-suls coming first and strictly according to the rules of precedence At the foot of the dias each person paused and made three profound salaams ilrst to the portraits then to the authorities on the right then to those on the left and retreated crawfish craw-fish fashion out by a side door not daring to turn his back upon those counterfeit presentiments of royalty and the cortejo was over When all had thus salaamed themselves out of the august presence the president with a few distinguished cnests whom he had especially invited stood in the windows of the palace and reviewed the troops as they defiled before him amid martial musio and the booming of cannon At night or rather nezt morning I the celebration was concluded by the inevitable I inevi-table fireworks an 5 a brilliant ball In tho theater of Our Lady of Peace attended by ell the beauty wealth and fashion of the vicinage BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Or PAKA The ladies of Para are as renowned for their beauty as the belle of Lima but one seldom gets a glimpse of any female members mem-bers of the aristocracy on tbe streets for they live as secluded almost as their Moorish great grandmothers even taking their airings in closed carriages Only at church the theater and cortejos they may be seen and then the curious stranger is apt to bo disappointed Though their black eyes are beautiful and hair glossy and abundant their features are Portugese and complexions generally the color ot an old shoe while the majority show unmistakable un-mistakable traces of negro l or ChineSo blood or an unpleasant mixture of many nationalities And like their sisters in all Lot countries wuo lead lives of inactivity they are inclined to excessive fat and shapelessness shape-lessness to the gramme of mustaches and a tendency to greasiness at an see when j Northern women have hardly reached their prime STKAKOB RICK ADMISTUKES Transplanted Portuguese civilization has flourished well under the blue sides and in tbe genial climate of this portion of the now world and the Brazilian Indians a more gentle and tractable race than the savages of North America took so kindly to their conquerors that a gradual amalgamation of the Latin and aborigine races has taken place Had the country been colonized with AngloSaxons instead such a fusion would not havo been possible pos-sible Portugal and Spain had felt the influence in-fluence of the Arabs and their tawny skins and other personal characteristics differed from the Indians only In degree So the mixed brown and white mingled easily with the darker shado of brown and having been since largely adulterated with African blood not to mention Mongolian Mon-golian and every other nation under the sunthe term black and tan is no misnomer mis-nomer hereabouts Of tho twelve million people now occupy ing Brazil not quite onethird are Caul caslana and in the majority of individua cases they are so largely mixed as hardly to deserve the name Another third are negroes less than onethird are Indians In-dians and tne rest come under the general head of Metis or mixed beyond classification classifica-tion The first the educated generally wealthy and comparatively white Porlu gucEOBrazilians SpanishBrazilians and SaxonBrazilians whether planters polU ticians merchants or gentlemen of leisure are naturally the ruling class as in all nations of mixed races the whitest though in ever so small a minority are the controlling con-trolling element To these should be added the soldiers for though the rank and file shade from blackandtnn to ebony they are officered by white men of commanding com-manding talent and influence It was they who wrought the recent revolution revo-lution which overthrew an empire rcallv against the wishes of tIle majority of 1 nzilians outside tho capital who ousted the first president in the beginning of his first term and are capable at anytime any-time of any sort of political overturning THE KEGUOES ANt ISDIA SOl S-Ol the Negroes there JE not much to be i said They come originally from tne same I Vest African tribes as other Americnn Negroes nnd as tuey have but lately emerged from slavery their capacity for I self government under the Repuoilcan system can easily ba judged There are many names to designate the different I shades of colored citizens Scientifically the latter ones are classed us mulattocs quadroons octaroons meorioids leuco melanoids etc j and locally those darker than mulattoes are known us motifs and I griffes They are found in every walk of life from highest to lowest on the i judges bench in the cabinet under priestly robes as college professors I authors and orators home of the most celebrated beauties of the country are ne grosses who ride in emblazoned carriages and nil their opera boxes with a blaze of jewels Brazilian Indians are said to be about the II ugliest human brines on the face of the earth not excepting the Diggers of Lower California and the tribes of Tierra del Fuego The Botocudos who are most noted have advanced far enough to till small patches of land live in huts raise cattle and weave mats for sale The Por j tutrueso gave them their singular name from the word botoowe meaning a barrel bung from their habit of wearing large round disks of wood in tneir ears and t under lips This fashion used to go so far that In middle life many of them tiud stiff under lips projecting JIve or six bones holding a plUg as big us the top of a coffee cup Of late years the custom is mostly I discontinued but both sexes still go perfectly per-fectly naked except those living in the I near neighborhood of white settlements I The men varnish themselves all over with I hrivht vellow uaint made from tho bark I cud gum of a species of palm and tho women dress up as some civilzed ladies I I do by applying a few streaks of white and red to their faces arms and bosoms Though tnan of the Botocudos I are now partially civilized we are assured I that those of tho farmland are cannibals to tho extent of eating their captives taken in war Like the Greeks of the Homeric I age they consider it the greatest of evils to lie unburied attar death so they delight in making flutes and trumpets of their enemies ene-mies bones I have the questionable pleasure pleas-ure of owning one of these ghastly trophies wnioh has JIve holes and is ornamented with tufts of red and yellow feathers attached at-tached to the bone by strIngs but it reQuires re-Quires somebody more courageous than your correspondent to test its value as a musical instrument by personal experiment experi-ment RESEMBLE THE PDEDLOS There is another Brazilian tribe whose name I do not remember who are an almost exact counterpart of tho Pueblos of Mexico I and Arizona simple peaceful and industrious indus-trious They live near the coast and are J doubtless descendants of those Pinzon Ca bral and other early voyagers first encountered encoun-tered But unfortunately they arc few In number and rapidly dying out for among their fierce neighbors the turn unto him the other check also principle Is disastrous disas-trous to life and property There J i s 1 i t are many scattered tribes of un reclaimed savages most of whom are wandering cannibals and all implacably hostile Perhaps the most In terestint among these at safe ditance are the Mundrucus or Beheaders who with thoir allies are said to number between 20000 and 80000 They live up the Madura Tapajos Rio Negro and other tributaries of the Amazon in palmleaf huts set around a central malocca the latter not the dwelling of a chief as might be supposed but rather a grand council chamber fortress fort-ress arsenal and general pdwxvow room In it are deposited those horrible trophies the preserved heads of their enemies ene-mies which have given to the Mundrucus their terrible title of Bo benders Unlike the Jiveros of South eat rn Ecquador they do not excavate the sKull but by some Baviure process of embalming em-balming keep the cranial relic as nearly entire I en-tire us possible Inserting false eyes made of bits of shell or polished quartz the longhair long-hair carclully combed out and decorated I with strings of rpckcock and macaw feathers I feath-ers feather earrings in the cars and dyed I strings passed thaougb the tongue by which to suspend it to tbe rafters In peaceful times hundreds of these are ranged around the walls of the malocca or set in rows around the man dioca fields to keep the ghosts away that might otherwise injure the I growing food and on warlilja and festive I occasions they are trotted out on tho points I of the warriors spears Strange to say tho Dyaks of Borneo have a similar custom I of preserving their enemies heausand are r provided with blowauns almost identical with tnose of South Americans Like most other Amazonian Indians tho Mundrucus cultivate a little mandioca corn and plantains They know how to prop re Farinha moal from the mamioca and also to brew a sort of intoxicant resembling re-sembling chicha They have gourd vessels some of them quaintly carved rude pots of bakoa clay and utensils of wood and stone Their canoes are hollowed treetrunks and b sides the blowguns for killing birds they have bamboo spears with poisoned points and nrrdws topped with a deadly curare By the way tbe latter is now generally conceded to be neither n vegetable veget-able poison nor the venom of serpents as was formerly supposed but the putrid matter from decayed human bodies the arrows being stuck into a festering corpse and left until soaked full of the deadliest poison known FANNIE B WAKD |