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Brazil, then, is in one sense an old country. For this reason it is of greater interest than any other part of America. It has been peopled by white races for more than three hundred years. The variety of soil and Climate has had time to fix its imprint upon the inhabi tants. According to the manner Of their lives, the kind of produce they have engaged themselves in raising, and the occupations open to them, they have gradually assumed different customs and different mental Character istics. One finds in Brazil not a uniform type Of civilisa tion, but surprisingly different modes of existence, which betray the gradual action of moral and physical in?uences. This diversity is betrayed and increased by racial diversity. Here the Portuguese race has remained almost unaduli terated; there, it is completely mixed with, and almost absorbed by, the indigenous race; here, again, it has been grafted upon the imported negro races; there are, in fact, several different populations, each possessing its own Characteristics, its peculiar activity or idleness, its own amusements and folklore.
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