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Show Farmers and Fishermen A nation busy with farming and fishing, Portugal has little use for formal education. Although there are three universities, more than one-half the population can neither read nor write. The peasants, however, how-ever, preserve by word of mouth a rich folklore, and their unwritten four-line poems, recited from one end of the country to the other, are famous. They are so numerous that a single collector was able to record 10,000. Their language, with i t s signal scarcity of l's and n's, is represented rep-resented in the world's literature by the Sixteenth-century Lusiad, written by the one-eyed Camoes largely while in exile. |
