CHAPTER X.--1910.

Provost Hornby--Christmas in Brazil--Architecture in S. Paulo--The Snake-farm--Guests at the Abbey--End of the Isolation of Fort Augustus--A Benedictine Festival--Sinister Italians--Death of Edward VII.--Brazilian Funerals--Popular Devotion--"Fradesj estrangeiros"--Football in the Tropics--Homeward Voyage--Santos and Madeira--Sir John Benn . . 170