AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MAD.


MAN
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When L first came out to Brazil got
situation as clerk in the counting house of
DiaZ, Brown d Co., the extensive mer
chants of Rio Janeiro. The only other
white clerk in their place of business was
oae Lopez de Pereira, a Portuguese by de-
scent aud birth, but educated in England.
Of course we became companions; and al
though he was eccentric to absurdity,
found him Fery agreeable fellow on the
whole; his whims being often irrcsistibly
ridiculous, while he was not at all annoy.
ed at any laughter, but would laugh h,m
seh with his whole heart, while he sill
persisted in the proceedings that caused it.
these were often whiie very odd both
hIIti;ii 10 himself and painful TO his friends.
as for Instance:


The inhabitants of Madeira have a SIN
guar mead dress; il consists of blue little
skull cap lined with red. not sufficient to
small strts---,I--c .--4:- ---.i h-.-:----
So, -.oiecling in the air from the midiic
i1i' aI II. rhis curious affair they perch on
busiy heal OF ha.r, and certainly acquire
tucreb, an aspect sufficiently remarkable
to Stranger. Now this cap fereira hai
seen at mat island, on MS voyage out from
ENG and. and once he took IL IN has head TO
wear one. made under his direction, of a
s,miar construction, at Rio; nor did he
,eave OBJ his noticeable head piece TIL an
attack of bra N fever made him adopt more
shady covering lie was, OF fcourse, Ro-
man Catholic, and devoutly believed IN the
agency oil The devil, upon whom. when his
wn,m- had lei him, he invariably laid The
| ID anne. -H


Oae day when we had been about year
toge. her, the day beng a hoiyday, we re-
so,veJ upon an expedition to the top OF tho
Corco. ado. Accordingly, hiring horses
we rode up ill horses could go no further
As we rode began,o laugh ami iques estior
n,n about his singular weakness. M,
thoughts were directed To this subject by
seeing him turn round on the horse baci
and ride with his face to the tail; and thi
though the animal was very spirited, an


the path 50 narrow that ones horse onl.


had room to 60 upon i, with the stone wal
tn the acqued.ci on one side AMI success


sion Of wooded preciPices outhe other. U


INV inauiring the cause Of this re'narkabl


maunuvre, he replied, laughing loudly him


self that he thought it was good idea
ha could talk to me better face to face, 10