A Brazilian Mystic - R B Cunninghame Graham

Excerpt from A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro
Some years ago, when he was President, after having read some tales of mine about the Gauchos, the late Colonel Roosevelt wrote a letter to me. In it he said: "What you and Hudson have done for South America, many have done for our frontiersmen in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. Others have written of the Mexican frontiersmen, and written well about them. No one, as far as I know," so he said, "has touched the subject of the frontiersmen of Brazil. Why don't you do it? for you have been there, know them, and speak their lingo. The field is open to you."
I was duly flattered and turned the question over in my mind; then forgot all about it. Things of importance, such as going out to dinner and endeavouring to arrive neither too early nor too late, but just exactly to descend before the door at the right moment - that is to say two or three minutes before eight - came in between the Brazilian frontiersman and my memory, as they are apt to do in civilised society, The years went by, with each one certifying his fellow that had passed, in blameless endeavour, such as that I have described.
Then came the war, and on my passage out to Uruguay, I found myself one morning entering the harbour of Bahia, on the Brazilian coast.
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