We came here from Santarém in order to find work. There was no land there where one could find work. Then I bought a piece of land here, from which we have been able to feed ourselves so far. It is a plantation for beans, maize, water melons or anything else which one can plant here.
Told by Domingo Grotasio de Sousa Correa in Carariaca at Rio Amazonas, on 21st September 2000