English: Conde d’Eu, Recife and São Francisco, Central Alagôas, Natal and Nova Cruz. The Conde d’Eu dated from 1857. Footnote 10: For details of extreme interest in this connection, see _A Madeira-Mamoré_ by Julio Nogueira, printed by the Jornal do Commercio press of Rio in 1913, and _A Crise da Borracha_, by Eloy de Souza, printed by the Imprensa Nacional, Rio, in 1915. Footnote 11: 32 to 36 milreis for the first year and 40 afterwards, for Type Seven beans. Footnote 12: Alqueire = 40 litres: Farinha = flour (of mandioca). Footnote 13: Professor Green says that he found one of these tree cottons in Rio Grande do Norte, of the Mocó variety, sixteen years old and still yielding beautiful cotton. Footnote 14: In 1915 Brazil imported 805,000 barrels of American flour, 56% of the total and 605,000 barrels from the Argentine, or 41%, the remaining 4% coming from Uruguay; at the same time she imported 14,000,000 bushels of wheat, of which nearly 12,000,000 came from Argentina and about 2,000,000 from the United States. This wheat, at five bushels to the barrel, made another 2,750,000 barrels of flour, and the total Brazilian consumption may be reckoned at about 4,200,000 barrels of wheat-flour of foreign, plus 407,000 of native, origin. The c. i. f. price of United States flour in Brazil in 1915 averaged $7.49 a barrel, while Argentine was able to deliver hers, c. i. f., for $5.28. Footnote 15: Dr. Costa Pinto reckons over 58,500 tons; he counts 49,648 looms and 1,464,218 spindles, each spindle taking 40 kilos of cotton annually. Footnote 16: _Bertholettia excelsa._ Footnote 17: Refusal to accept its own paper would of course have had the immediate effect of dangerously depressing all Government issues. Footnote 18: There are in existence small copper coins, relics of the day long past when less than a hundred reis would buy something, but they are not in circulation because they have no purchasing power. The post office sometimes presents them as change for some fraction of 100 reis, and the recipient usually puts them into the hand of the first _mendicante_ encountered outside. Footnote 19: Since 1916 half a dozen Federal or State loans have been made to Brazil, successfully floated by New York financial houses. Footnote 20: Brazil Railways securities are listed in dollars because the company which bought up or leased a number of European-constructed enterprises, was, although financed entirely with French, Belgian and British money, registered in the State of Maine. Footnote 21: Five years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Page Changed from Changed to 166 between 15,000,000 “Foreign” and between 15,000,000 “Foreign” and 10,000 Brazilian 10,000,000 Brazilian