A Summer Journey to Brazil

“To the general American public Brazil is a terra incognita. Less is known of it than of Asia, Africa, the distant islands of the sea, or even of the North Pole.”

“I asked no other thing,

No other was denied.

I offered Being for it;

The mighty merchant smiled.

Brazil? He twirled a button,

Without a glance my way:

‘But, madam, is there nothing else

That we can show to-day?’”

Emily Dickinson.