When the Going Was Good

by Evelyn Waugh

  Published in Penguin Classics 2000

  All rights reserved

  ISBN: 978-0-718-19776-6

  Chapter Four: A Journey to Brazil in 1932

  * Boviander is the name given to the people of unknown descent – mostly Dutch, Indian and Negro mixtures – who live in isolated huts all along the lower waters of the big rivers; they generally have a minute clearing where they grow manioc or maize; they fish, and spend most of their time, like the water rat in Wind in the Willows, ‘messing about in boats’.