Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — THE CITY OF BAHIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE CITY OF BAHIA.

The Second Largest Place In Brazil —, Picturesque Market-Women. Bahia, or San Salvador, is the second largest town in Brazil, It is on the Atlantic coast, and exports more sugar than all the rest of Brazil The

bay proper is twice as large as New York bay, and there are smaller bays stretching along the coast on each side. The town straggles in irregularly built terraces up a precipitous red cliff, dotted with hanging gardens. It is the seat of the Archbishop, and has even more churches than Pernambuco, all having a strong family likeness Aft at all the Brazilian ports, there are-no docks at Bahia, and one has to land in boats. The wharf, which is dotted yith rather rickety old kiosks, built in imitation of those along the boulevards of Paris, is used as a fish and iruit market. The market-women make wonderfully picturesque groups, with their ganay turbans, their white embroidered chemises, necklaces of bright-colored beads, and fingers covered with rings. The men smoke cigarettes incessantly; the women, briar-wood pipes.

BAHIA MARKET-WOMAN.