Word: fazenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
Next day the crisis ripened. Jonsine and Monique went to Mass together, then dropped into Sonny's Bar for tomato juice, then lunched at the rambling Villa Fazenda. Monique wrote a letter to Nano telling him she had finally broken with Jonsine. Six hours before it was postmarked, she was dead...