Excerpt from A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro Life goes on there much as it has gone on for the last three hundred years. The people mostly are engaged in cattle farming, and live on horseback. They dress in leather, on account of the dense scrub; their daily lives are hard and perilous; religion Occupies a chief place in their minds. The two provinces of Bahia and Pernambuco meet in the vague region Of the Sertao, an elevated plateau between two thousand and three thousand feet in height, backed by more or less pronounced ranges of mountains or of hills, whose distance from the coast rarely exceeds two hundred or two hundred and fifty miles. This plateau has a 'climate and a flora of its own, the former ranging from great extremes of heat to a considerable degree of cold, taking into considera tion the latitude in which it lies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.