The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The German Element in Brazil, by Benjamin Franklin Schappelle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect Author: Benjamin Franklin Schappelle Release Date: December 20, 2005 [eBook #17361] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN BRAZIL*** E-text prepared by David Starner, Ralph Janke, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) AMERICANA GERMANICA MONOGRAPHS DEVOTED TO THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE Literary, Linguistic and Other Cultural Relations OF Germany and America EDITOR MARION DEXTER LEARNED University of Pennsylvania XXVI. THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN BRAZIL COLONIES AND DIALECT (See List at the End of the Book) THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN BRAZIL COLONIES AND DIALECT BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SCHAPPELLE, Ph.D. Americana Germanica NUMBER 26 Americana Germanica Press Philadelphia 1917 [TN1]COPYRIGHT 1917 BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SCHAPPELLE. RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN, LL.D. TABLE OF CONTENTS Lied der Deutschbrasilianer Preface CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES. HISTORY AND LOCATION. The First Settlers COLONIZATION IN INDIVIDUAL STATES.