CHAPTER XIX.

SANTOS, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL--RICHARD'S SECOND CONSULATE.

We explore Portugal--I rejoin him at Rio de Janeiro--Arrival at Santos and São Paulo--Life in Brazil--Brazilian life--Life at Rio--The Barra for contrast--To the mines in Minas Gerães--We go down the big mine--Below--Chico and I start on a fifteen days' ride alone--The landlord of the hotel is mystified--Richard dangerously ill--Mesmerizing--Regatta--We leave Brazil--Richard goes south--Lord Derby gives Richard Damascus--His carbine pistol--Pleasant days in Vichy and Auvergne--The Fell Railway--Geographical disagreeables--Work--The Nile--Still the Nile--I sail for Damascus.