Crossword-Solution: CARDOZO 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The owner, an old white-haired Portuguese trader of Ega named Daniel Cardozo, was then at Barra attending the assizes as juryman, a public duty performed without remuneration, which took him six weeks away from his business.

One was a daughter of Pedro’s, who had an oval tattooed spot over her mouth; the second was a young grandson; and the third the son-in-law from Ega, Cardozo’s _compadre._ The old woman was occupied, when we entered, in distilling spirits from cará, an edible root similar to the potato, by means of a clay still, which had been manufactured by herself.

The son-in-law, Pedro-uassú, and Cardozo now began a long conversation on the subject of their deceased wife, daughter, and _comadre._[1] It appeared she had died of consumption—“tisica,” as they called it, a word adopted by the Indians from the Portuguese.

The widower repeated over and over again, in nearly the same words, his account of her illness, Pedro chiming in like a chorus, and Cardozo moralising and condoling.

When we returned to the house after mid-day, Cardozo was still sipping cauim, and now looked exceedingly merry.