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A que nesse momento costeava a margem do Parahyba, tinha o mesmo destino; e voltava do Rio de Janeiro, onde fôra vender os productos de sua expedição pelos terrenos auriferos.
The one that at that moment skirted the bank of the Paraíba had the same purpose; and was returning from Rio de Janeiro, where it had gone to sell the produce of its expedition through the gold-bearing country.
This particular band had the same purpose, and was returning from Rio, where it had gone to sell the produce of its expedition through the gold-bearing country.
Alencar connects the generic to the specific — this is the very band whose selling-trip to Rio Chapter II described from the house's side. We are now riding with the men we earlier watched leave, and the ordinary business of the frontier is about to give way to something far less ordinary.
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