+-------------------+---------+----------+---------------+-----------+ II EDUCATION The educational facilities in all of the states are inadequate, as the statistics show, but in some of them, they are not only inadequate but poor. The Ministry of Industry, Transportation and Public Works has recently published a volume of general statistics, from which the following table has been compiled, the first three columns giving the figures for primary education, and remaining two columns relating to secondary education:— +-------------------+-------+---------+-----------+-------+----------+ |State |Schools|Enrolment| Attendance|Schools| Enrolment| +-------------------+-------+---------+-----------+-------+----------+ |Alagoas | 271 | 3,255 | 10,959 | 7 | 837 | |Amazonas | 250 | 5,476 | 4,495 | 5 | 452 | |Bahia | 1,007 | 47,288 | 32,135 | 24 | 2,010 | |Ceará | 382 | 16,267 | 12,982 | 16 | 1,183 | |Federal District | 419 | 57,271 | 36,106 | 43 | 4,662 | |Espirito Santo | 175 | 6,359 | 4,674 | 6 | 439 | |Goyaz | 162 | 6,134 | 4,149 | 4 | 347 | |Maranhão | 217 | 11,941 | 8,231 | 9 | 638 | |Matto Grosso | 107 | 5,288 | 4,677 | 7 | 466 | |Minas Geraes | 2,178 | 119,613 | 66,252 | 51 | 4,281 | |Pará | 433 | 19,870 | 17,093 | 11 | 938 | |Parahyba | 223 | 9,870 | 6,852 | 7 | 527 | |Paraná | 309 | 13,566 | 10,640 | 7 | 483 | |Pernambuco | 386 | 21,139 | 15,104 | 17 | 1,613 | |Piauhy | 146 | 7,754 | 6,030 | 6 | 438 | |Rio de Janeiro | 485 | 24,773 | 16,075 | 14 | 1,486 | |Rio Grande do Norte| 152 | 7,601 | 6,547 | 5 | 378 | |Rio Grande do Sul | 1,516 | 67,370 | 50,809 | 26 | 3,605 | |S. Catharina | 376 | 14,159 | 10,535 | 9 | 905 | |São Paulo | 1,708 | 82,089 | 61,066 | 46 | 4,146 | |Sergipe | 245 | 8,839 | 5,797 | 7 | 419 | | +-------+---------+-----------+-------+----------+ | |11,147 | 565,922 | 991,188 | 327 | 30,258 | +-------------------+-------+---------+-----------+-------+----------+ III THE AMAZON BASIN It may be interesting to the reader to take a brief survey of the Amazon and its tributaries. It will, at least, give a little idea of this vast river system, which is the most marvellous in the world.