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O Guarani 3.2 · 3.2

A body of horsemen

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Um troço de cavalleiros, que constaria quando muito de quinze pessoas, costeava a margem direita do Parahyba.

A body of horsemen, which would number at most fifteen people, skirted the right bank of the Paraíba.

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The setting

The bandeira appears: a troop of some fifteen riders skirting the right bank of the Paraíba.

A note on this passage

The camera pulls back to a wide shot: a small armed company moving along the same river the first chapter described. Alencar ties the new scene to the old geography — the Paraíba again — so we feel these riders converging on the house we already know.

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