The best plan is to call in the first black you may happen to see, as they all perform this operation very skilfully.
As regards the natural products of the Brazils, a great many of the most necessary articles are wanting in the list.

It is true that there are sugar and coffee, but no corn, no potatoes, and none of our delicious varieties of fruit.

The flour of manioc, which is mixed up with the other materials of which the dishes are composed, supplies the place of bread, but is far from being so nutritious and strengthening, while the different kinds of sweet-tasting roots are certainly not to be compared to our potatoes.

The only fruit, which are really excellent, are the oranges, bananas and mangoes.

Their celebrated pine-apples are neither very fragrant nor remarkably sweet; I certainly have eaten much finer flavoured ones that had been grown in a European hot-house.