Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Brazil

Collection:: Economics Books

14 SELLING LATIN AMERICA largest country in the world, and is widest be tween the Equator and the Tropic of Capri corn, covering an area of 3,292,000 square miles. The population has been variously estimated at from 20,000,000 to 24,000,000, of whom less than 1,000,000 are aborigines, thus giving it about one-fifth of the population per square mile of the population of the United States of America. Its inhabitants are white, black, mulattoes, Indians and mixed breeds, a heavy percentage being descendants from the slaves imported originally from Africa, slavery in Brazil having been abolished in 188S. The language of Brazil is Portuguese ex cept among the Indian tribes, each one of which has its own dialect. These Indians are to be found in the interior and the remote dis tricts, and are a negligible quantity as far as trade is concerned, living primitive lives and having few wants that the rich country and rivers cannot supply. Brazil was discovered April 22, 1500, by Pedro Alvarez Cabral, a Portuguese explorer,

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