Excerpt from Brazil and the Brazilians: Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches The demand for a ninth edition of this work is an index that the reading public, in America and England, takes a deep interest in the subject Of' Brazil and that the authors, in their attempt to prepare an acceptable book on the leading country of South America, have not labored in vain. The eighth edition had become exceedingly scarce; Copies commanded three times the original price and standing orders for the book, both in London and New York, for four years resulted in obtaining but a Single second-hand volume. Upon inquiring into the reason for this scarcity, it was found to con sist in the fact (1) that the historical portion of Brazil and the Brazilians gave the book a permanent place in both public and private libraries; and (2) that the interest aroused in the United States, by the statistics published in this work, which showed the increasing importance of Brazil in a commercial point of view, caused this volume to fall into the hands of parties who never send their books to what are termed in America antiquarian book-stores. In this ninth edition there has been no abridgment of the descriptions of nature in Brazil, and the manners and customs of the people - descriptions which led the London Athenaeum to say, in its review of the first edition, that Brazil was never before so fully, so faithfully, so artistically photographed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.