Identifier: sightseeinginsou00friz (find matches)
Title: Sight-seeing in South America
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Frizell, William Givens, 1866- (from old catalog) Greenfield, George Henry, 1873-
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Publisher: (Dayton, Ohio, The Utterbein press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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re prevails.Ornamental tiles are not as frequent as at Recife, butthey are still much in evidence. Well-trimmed treesshade the wide avenues and overtower the broad Fracas. Parque Alfonso Penna is one of the most central.Surrounding it are many buildings of interest, includingthe Governors Palace and the cathedral. The latter wascommenced in 1720. On one side of this Parque is the Bourse, only partiallybuilt. Its construction was begun ten years ago, but thefunds were exhausted when the building was but halfcompleted. jMarble facing and columns indicate thatthey intended making it one of the finest buildings of thecity. It covers an entire block. The neglected interiorand the skeleton walls are overgrown with ferns, orchids,and all kinds of tropical vegetation. The weirdness ofthis neglected building is enhanced by the crying of vul-tures as much as by the overhanging moss. \ultures,the scavangers of the city, are protected by law. Theyfly over the c\t:x and lii>hl on old buildings.
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Fara 245 We spent some time at Paras famous Botanical Gar-den. A zoological garden and an ethnological museumare connected with it. Here may be seen Indian imple-ments and weapons, and strange and peculiar birds andbeasts. Arrows and canoes made by the interior tribesof Indians are exhibited. Aboriginal Indians are foundin numerous small tribes in the forests and plains of theinterior. There are one million of them in Brazil. Inthe midst of the garden is a canoe sixty-three feet long,dug out of a single tree. It was made by the Indians onthe river Tocantins. A small aquarium contains snakes peculiar to the equa-torial regions. Cages are ornamented with birds ofvaried plumage. Animals, seen nowhere else in theworld, are on exhibition. Everything is classified.There is a chimpanzee of colossal size and little dwarfmonkeys with white side whiskers. Sloths hang from thebars above and tapirs seek their easy prey in ant hills.Parrots swing on poles and monkeys spring in mid-air.There is a s

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