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A925.5
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Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 5 (1817)
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, Francisco, a Spanish pilot, sent to examine the coast South of Chiloe. VT53. Mackaws, birds of the parrot kind; prodigious flights of, at Quibo. V. 60. Madalena, Bahia de la, in the outer coast of California. I. 221. Madalena Island, one of the Marquesas, discovered by Mendana. II. 135. Beauty of the natives extolled. 137. Madre de Dios, Port, in the Island Sta Christina, one of the Marquesas. II. 143. Magalhanes, Fernando de, Voyage of. I. 13 to 118. Different narratives written of it. 16-18. His
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A925.5
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Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 5 (1817)
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in Coquimbo Bay. IV. 500. Payta, burnt by the Buccaneers. IV. 160. And frequently afterwards. Rainy weather there. 534. Burnt by Shelvocke. ib. By Commodore Anson. V. 57. Description of Payta by Pascoe Thomas. 58. Payta, Balza of. II. 342. Paz, Bahia de la, in California. II. 183. Settlement made there by Vizcaino. ib. Is withdrawn. 184. Settlement by Otondo. 346-7. Is abandoned. 349. Pe, the Gulf of Tartary, formerly supposed by the Chinese to be a great Lake in Yesso, [page] 21
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A925.5
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Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 5 (1817)
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Island, near California. I. 169. Solano, P. Francisco, succeeds Sanvitores as Superior of the Mission at Guahan. III. 296. Foretells the death of a Chamorris. ib. Soledad, Bahia de la, the Acarron Bay of M. de Bougainville. V. 155. Solis, Juan de, discoverer of the River de la Plata. I. 7. Killed there in a subsequent voyage. 10. Rio de Solis. ib. Solitaria, Island discovered by Mendana. II. 147. 175. Situation. 175. Somera, Josef, a Spanish pilot. His narrative of a voyage to the Palaos or Pelew
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CUL-DAR29.3.76-77
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Mammalia in Spirits of Wine (enumeration and description of specimens
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flying into a room at Bahia on the coast of Brazil. [in margin:] specific characters 375. Tatusia Pichiy. V. account amongst animals 403. Dasypus tricinctus. V. do – do – 561 Mouse caught near a wreck on E. Falkland Isd stated to be common throughout Isld – Specific character 587 Young Rad do – do – 659+ Toco Toco (1267) same as – north bank of Plata 678 Head of Mouse (1288) 698. do of do (1287) 699 Cavia Cobaya same as (1266) North Bank of Rio Plata. 700 Mus same as (1289) specific characters 703
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CUL-DAR29.3.76-77
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Numbers with + refer to additional information on the back of Page Birds c c in Spirits of Wine 388 + Scolopax – Perdrix V. account (same as 710 not spirits) 418. Tringa shot out of large flock. Bahia Blanca 508 Trachea of common rock goose. V. account 545 do. do do Steamer do 576: 577 do – of Upland Goose do 620 + Tongue of Picus 1237 [in pencil] 8 630 _ Certhia same as (1228) (with tail) for specific description 650 Parus same (1257) do 701 + Rhyncops same as (1264) 707 Scolopax- Perdrix
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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, they jerk great quantities, for the use of such ships as sail from Pernambuco, Bahia Todos os Santos, and Rio de Janeiro to Guinea. The inland parts up these rivers are inhabited by Indians, called Tapuyes; many of whom send yearly large droves of cattle (through the Tupique nation, which extends from the source of Rio St. Francisco, in lat. 8 S. to that of Rio Doce, in 20 S.) to Bahia Todos os Santos, and Rio de Janeiro, where they sell them for three or four crusadoes a piece (a crusado is about
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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bold as far as Punto de Tapoas, which is the easternmost land before you bear away for Bahia Todos os Santos, and may be known by a number of cocoa-nut-trees, which grow upon it. Give this point a good birth, and approach not within a league of the shore till the castle of St. Anthony, at the entrance of the bay, bears N. by W. then there is no danger till you are near the round fort, which before you come to, you may find anchoring ground enough in what depth you please. THE city of Bahia Todos os
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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collectively taken, and called Cidade de Bahia. The city and town are connected by three streets, which run slantwise up the eminence, as it would be almost impossible to go right up: in two or three places they have long pulleys (inclined planes) two hundred yards in length, built up the side of this steep eminence, to draw up the goods from the Praya, where they have large warehouses. Here is a spacious market-place, surrounded by piazzas, under which is kept a continual fair for goods
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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all the modern geographers. All those which I have searched are, however, silent as to any remarks on this place. THE next place on this coast is Rio Camamu, a large river, about twenty-five leagues to the southward of Bahia; here are numbers of small towns and villages, and the banks of this river are the best inhabited of any part of the Brazils. There are not less than three or four hundred small vessels employed by the inhabitants to convey their commodities to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro
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A556.1
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Juan y Santacilla, Jorge and Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America...undertaken...by G. Juan and A. de Ulloa, Captains of the Spanish Navy. translated by John Adams. 4th ed. London: John Stockdale. [vol. 1 only, inscribed "Robt FitzRoy to Charles Darwin"] CUL-DAR.LIB.330 vol. 1.
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city of Panama is not only the capital of its particular province, but also of the whole kingdom of Terra Firma, which consists of the three provinces of Panama, Darien, and Veraguas. The first is the seat of every branch of the government, as being situated between the other two; Darien lying on the east side, and Veraguas on the west. THE kingdom of Terra Firma begins northwards at the river of Darien, and stretching along by Nombre de Dios, Bocas del Toro, Bahia del Almirante, is terminated
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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, jurisdiction ii. 135 B. Baba i. 173 Baeza, town of 352 Bagre, a fish 186 Bahia Todos os Santos ii. 332 Balza described i. 182 wood in building it 183 how managed 184 how steered 185 Banana, described 74 Bannos, village of 425 Baranca ii. 25 Base for the series of triangles, how measured i. 211 Bastimentos, what 96 Bats of Carthagena 58 F f [page break
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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low water mark. The Indiamen were therefore obliged to cut their cables (it being impossible for them to weigh where they had brought to), to leave their anchors behind them, and stand away for Bahia, where they met with a more favourable reception. TO the southward of Pernambuco is the bay of Vasabarris, into which the river St. Francisco disembogues itself, and occasions such eddies to the distance of three or four leagues from the land, that few vessels which approach near the shore in this
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A556.2
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Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2.
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-Timber river, which runs W. N. W. The main branch, which runs W. S. W. is also navigable as far as the town of Badia, about twenty leagues from the mouth. On the banks of these branches there are many fine plantations, and small villages, which send great quantities of sugar, tobacco, and mandioc to Bahia, or Pernambuco, as the wind permits, which, on this coast blows N. E. from October to May, and the rest of the year S. E. THIS river runs into the sea through four channels, formed by three small
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Entomology Bahia Rio de Janeiro Bahia T. del Fuego Chonos Archipelago S. Crus Chiloe?
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C C Cellaria Falkland Isd 230 Crisia Coast of Pat 255 Corallina Valparaiso 279 Condor Chili 281 Carolina Chiloe 284 Cyptogam Chono archipel 287 Cassiopæa C. Tres Montes 299 Corallina (propagation by laying) Habitation 279 Corallina Cape / Good Hope 57 (3) Conferva (pelagic) Cape Leewin Australia Keeling Isd 349 Crab Keeling Isld 362 Corallina Bahia Brazil 367 Balanus p 137 — 159 Creusia
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CUL-DAR29.3.36
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 13 Mr Waterhouse The generic names probable habits of the moth staphylinus ornithomya from St. Pauls [insertion:] answered + Vampire, from Coquimbo Small Ant p. 48 larger ant. p. 80 Bahia, Rid de Jan [insertion:] generic name as smaller species if possible Elater Bahia.. name p. 42 answered Lampyris p. 41 – are the others larvæ or females. Rui answered (Larvæ certainly W. [Waterhouse]) Papilio; cause of noise, powers of walking, high flight head
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C C Cellaria Falkland Isd Crisia Coast of Pat Corallina Valparaiso Condor Chili Carolina Chiloe Cyptogam Chono archipel Cassiopæa C. Tres Montes Corallina (propagation by [illeg] Corallina Cape / G (3) Conferva (pelagic) Cape Leen 49 Crab Keeling Isld 362 Corallina Bahia Brazil 367 Amphorra p. 56 x 14 x 131 164 211 x 165 x 279 x 279 x 57 (3) 367 X (Dry) 596 (6) 86 86 p 57
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [172] I presume thinks infusoria part of pumice, but the last sentence p. 14) wd lead me to think, from speaking in line having been used as a flux that the calcareous matter was used in melting the infusoria Conclusion p. 19 {one of the largest formations par formed of through the influence of life. p 19 Bahia Blanca paragraph mistranslated (I think) must mean highest tide // Undoubtedly L'Institut has falsely translated that. [172v
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In Patagonia the blending of pebbles the appearance of travelling may be owing to successive transportal from prevailing swell, (as Shingle travels on the Chesil bank V. De la Beche) Ask Capt. F. R: how the swell generally during gales would tend to travel on a central line of Patagonia. NB. Mr Lyell P. 211 Vol III talks of line of cliff marking a pause When mentioning pumice of Bahia Blanca, mention black scoriaceous rocks of R Chupat. fall of Ashes of Falkner, ?how far is the distance? 6
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Fossil bones black as if from peat - yet cetaceous bones so likewise of miocene period. Mem Bahia blanca P. 204 Vol III. Lyell Owing to open faults in mountains to elevated strata in eocene lakes of France, unequal action of Earthquakes on Chili delta of Indus my belief in submarine tilting alone, must be modified. Moreover, the Volcanos from sea there burst out, after rise as did those aerial Volcanos in Germany In the Valle del Yeso it is probable that point of Porphyry has been upheaved in
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (93 What is nature of strip of Mountain Limestone in N. Wales. was it reef. — I remember many Corals?? Breccia — Stratification? Anomalous action of ocean. — at Ascension. (where occasionally most tremendous surf loose sandy beach) deposits calcareous encrustations; At Bahia ferruginous. — At Pernambuco (great swell turbid water) organic bodies protect like peat reef of sandstone. — Corals, Corallina survive, in the most violent surfs: in both latter
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (66 Ferruginous veins of this figure (A) in sandstone: evidently depend on a concretionary contraction: the fact is in alliance with those balls at Chiloe full of sand. — the quantity of iron being there in excess. - If veins (A) are secretionary, so are all those plates in Australia, New Red Sandstone, at Bahia in modern sandstone a circle, (A) had in its middle a short vein terminated each way, which little vein was like the rest of these thin veins
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CUL-DAR29.3.31-33
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Rio de Janeiro 456 is nyctophanes ignita Dejean 593} Dadophora Lampynidæ 441} Lampyris occidentalis better call both Lampyris 564 appears to be 441 had better be called Lampyris occidentalis 564 is probably young of do or of 593 which is closely allied species to occidentalis 352 {Elater phophoseus of [illeg] Pynophorus luminosus of Illiger} Bahia (3152) Gryllus migratorius very closely allied to 3423 Bug [Redwvius uvins] genus (species unknown) 482 Pepsis one of the Fossorial Hymenoptera
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. Cruz, high up its course. ] [207] (7) [South America, p. 25: No. 7.─ Section of coast cliffs and bottom of sea, off the island of St. Helena. ] [208] (13) Formation [South America, p. 82: No. 15.─ Section of beds with recent shells and extinct mammifers, at Punta Alta in Bahia Blanca
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I defy any one (P 186) to understand position of iron stone flotz [insertion:] tapanho-acanga, (which is said to occur at Goyaz. St Pauls, Bahia, is believed always to contain gold – appears to contain rounded fragm yet appears to graduate into the underlying iron – mica slates, (which are equally incomprehensible) – contains lithomarge. Eschwege calls Tapanho-acanga calls Alluvial rock. (mica like?) Spix calls Quader-sandstein evidently so!!! D. Pohl considers Elastic strata alluvial
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Parallel of St Catherine 18 leagues 70 Fathom Paranagua 12 - 40 St Sebastian 12 50 Joatingua 5 35 R. de Janeiro SE 18 77 C. Frio 7 60 Soundings about same as last to N. of C. Frio Except at Abrolhos Bahia 8 200 Morro S. Paulo 9 120 Garcia de Avila 9 124 Itapicuru 9 200 R. Real Sergipe 10 190 R. San Francisco 10 50 Whole coast to Olinda 9-10 = 30-40 at twice or 18-20 80 120 parallel of Olinda Shoaler N. of Olinda - a little WNW of C. Rock still shoaler, coast composed of sand dunes. 15 - 15
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roots which must protect surface: On hard exposed rocks near Bahia, whole surface to where highest spray (there pale green confervæ) coated with living beings; In smooth seas ( even turbulent as at St Helena) I have mentioned point of greatest action; I now having seen Pernambuco believe much is owing to protection of Organic productions. = Yet everywhere on coast (II Defonsos Kelp) rocks show signs of degradation; (soft substances worn into bare cliffs evident); the action is anomalous; It is
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P 47 Due South of Tandil S. Tinta, marble in strata.─ [South America, p. 147: This ridge is only a few hundred feet in height, and runs from C. Corrientes in a W.N.W. line for at least 150 miles into the interior: at Tapalguen, it is composed of unstratified granular quartz, remarkable from forming tabular masses and small plains, surrounded by precipitous cliffs: other parts of the range are said to consist of granite; and marble is found at the S. Tinta. ] p 47 all about Bahia Blanca R
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [96] Bahia Blanca -1 Voluta angulata -2 ─ colocynthis -3 Olivia Brazilicusis -4 nearly related to patula, but specimen very imperfect -5 ─ nearly related to Oriza {legs nearly to small species now living in this Bay -6 ─ nov. spec -7 Buccinum cochliduim -8 ─ globulosum -9 [Oncolio] muscule minuta Buccinum, perhaps young specimens, unknown. -10 Trochus nov. spec.? same as species now living in this Bay. -11 — nov. spec? {nearly related to last, but
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 33 The number of minute timbres in red earth with volutas prove regular mud bank at Bahia Blanca. Flustra identical recent bone bed. November 8th 1877 (Memoranda so far distributed to various subjects) [Darwin, C. R. Notebook A: Geology (1837-1839). CUL-DAR127.] Dampier VI P 101 4 or 5 of the Eastermost are only rocky, barren hilly producing neither true herb no grass, but a few Dildoe (Cactus) trees, except by the sea side . (in 1684), then probably
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Phys. Res., p. 35, and Dr. Meigs, in Trans. Amer. Phil.. Soc.) to have found human bones, encrusted with sea-shells, between fifteen and twenty feet above the level of the sea. Between Rio de Janeiro and Cape Frio, I crossed sandy tracts abounding with sea-shells, at the distance of a league from the coast; but whether these tracts have been formed by upheaval, or through the mere accumulation of drift sand, I am not prepared to assert. At Bahia (lat. 13° S.), in some parts near the coast, there
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CUL-DAR40.92
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [92] 15 (King George Sound) is worthy of attention // especially in those dikes which are narrow The fact of a system of dikes close together and running parallel to each other close together, I recollect several instances of it in erratic countries, (-as an Quiriquina Island near Concepcion, two localities in the Chonos Archipelago, Bahia on the coast of Brazil, and in mica slate on the Eastern flank of the Cordillera of central Chile) where the
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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CHAP. XXXVI. Carta Regia. 31 Jan. 1736. MS. four for the Mines of Goyaz, Cuyaba, Pernagua, and Perampa- nema, which were then included in the Captaincy of S. Paulo, and one for those of Arasuahy and Tanados in Bahia. The newly erected offices were exempted from the tax of the thirds; VOL. III. 2 N [page] 27
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A854.02
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 2.
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CHAP. XX. 1645. to overcome such prejudices. They possessed not that personal authority among the soldiers, by which, as much as by his power, Mauritz had kept them in awe; and they had neither his generosity nor his talents. Dutch deputation to Bahia. One of their first measures was to send deputies to Bahia, under the plea of complimenting Antonio Telles on his arrival: they were to represent to him, that many Portugueze who had submitted to the Dutch Government, and contracted large debts
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A854.01
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 1.
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above threescore men in two unsuccessful attacks, abandoned the enterprize and proceeded to Bahia. He found the fleets of Spain and Portugal in possession of the Bay, and not being strong enough to oppose them, made sail for Europe. Measures of the Spanish Government. Brito Freire. 233. Cespedes. 5. 20. Jornada da Bahia. c. 5. The news of the loss of Bahia excited great alarm at Madrid. That Court, which when forewarned of the blow had taken no measures to prevent it, perceived its whole
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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Villa da Barra do Rio Grande 791 Town of O Penedo 792 Province of Seregipe d'El Rey 793 City of Seregipe ib. Lawless state of the people 794 Captaincy of Bahia ib. City of Bahia ib. Cultivation of pepper 797 Internal trade of the Bay 799 Engenhos in Bahia 800 Town of Cachoeira 801 Sertoens of Bahia 802 Town of Jacobina ib. Villa do Rio de Contas 803 Captaincy of Ilheos ib. Interior still possessed by savages 804 The Mongoyos ib. Town of Ilheos 805 Captaincy of Porto Seguro 807 The Botocudos ib
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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CHAP. XXXI. 1694. of Bahia, and in spite of the opposition made in Portugal to the measure, the King sent over persons to coin colonial money, which should circulate only in Brazil. Three gold pieces were struck, the moeda or moidore of four milreis, the half moidore, and the quarter; six in silver, of two patacas, one pataca, and half a pataca, one, two, and four vintems. It was thought too hazardous to coin the money for the Rio and Pernambuco at Bahia, and transport it by sea; and therefore
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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CHAP. XXXII. 1702. 31. 25. 13. 16. 17. 21. tance of the mines from the capital, definitive powers were allowed him in treasury causes, to the amount of a hundred milreis; for other and graver cases an appeal lay to the Supreme Court at Bahia. Secret information would be received of any frauds committed upon the Government, that proceedings might be instituted against the offenders, conformably to law. Cattle were driven from Bahia to the mines, and gold dust given in payment for them. The
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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CHAP. XL. 1759. Conduct of the Archbishop of Bahia. tional drop of water to moisten their lips; nor would he permit them the consolation of receiving the last sacrament in death. Five of them died under this inhuman usage. There are always wicked instruments enough to carry into full effect the worst intentions of unjust and tyrannical power. Examples in all history are but too common; and in the whole detail of the expulsion of the Jesuits, from first to last, they occur with infamous
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A854.01
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 1.
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CHAP. XIV. 1624. Zeal of the Portugueze. Jornada da Bahia c. 9. G. Giuseppe p. 64. Jornada da Bahia c. 4. Franscisco de Moura went in one to take the command in Bahia, another was destined to Pernambuco, the third to Rio de Janeiro, the fourth to Angola. The Portugueze were aware of the value of their colonies; a hundred thousand crowns were given by the city of Lisbon towards the expences of government for the deliverance of St. Salvador; the Duke of Braganza made a voluntary contribution of
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A854.02
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 2.
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CHAP. XXI. 1645. Nieuhoff, 92. Cast. Lus. 6 98 105. Val. Luc. p. 261. was of great importance; the fort was considered as the key of Pernambuco; there was now nothing to oppose the free passage of the Portugueze from Bahia, and the insurgents could be supplied with food from the extensive pastures along this great river. The fort was razed at the request of the inhabitants, and Aranha proceeded with his troops to join Fernandes and Vidal in the Varzea. The deserters formed into a regiment
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A854.02
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 2.
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the fair establishment to be forty able Negroes of both sexes, as many oxen, and as many horses. Manoel Feliz da Lima states it at an hundred Negroes; he had Bahia or the Rio in his mind, and perhaps includes all ages, whereas Mr. Koster reckons neither the old nor the young. 32 One ship from Angola would bring out five or six hundred, and sometimes a thousand slaves! (Vieyra, Sermoens, t. 6, p. 391.) Vieyra says, (Sermoens, t. 8, 522,) that in Bahia alone 25,000 Negroes were catechized and
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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Cathedral at Bahia, seeing that they were not preserved with that care, nor in that splendour, to which things of this kind are thought entitled by the Roman Catholics: he distinguished by his favour those Priests who were versed either in the Dutch, or English, or Danish languages, and encouraged them to convert sailors of those nations when they came to Bahia; and he drew up a summary of the religious instruction necessary for salvation according to the doctrines of his church, and distributed many
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A854.03
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 3.
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these murderers been punished with death, or condemned to life-long imprisonment and penance, all the other lives would probably have been saved. The inhabitants of Seregipe are of all shades of colour; and it has been observed, that of all classes the Mamalucos are the longest lived. Lawless state of the people. Cazal. 2. 144. Captaincy of Bahia. City of Bahia. Cazal. 1. 119. This province is subordinate to Bahia, which, including Ilheos, extends one hundred and fifteen leagues from north to
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A854.02
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Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 2.
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CHAP. XXVIII. 1686. Rocha Pitta, 7, 33 46. has been Patron16 of Bahia, and his yearly festival is celebrated in that city on the tenth of May, being the anniversary of the day on which his image was carried in procession and staid the plague, .. according to the belief in which a superstitious and deluded People have been confirmed by an idolatrous and deceitful Church. 16 Xavier was already Tutelary Saint of Navarre, Naples, the whole East Indies, and Palermo; .. considering how young a Saint
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CHAPTER XXXIII. Rio de Janeiro attacked by the French under Du Clerc, who are defeated, and the whole force slain or taken. A second expedition, under Du Guay-Trouin, captures the city; which is ransomed. Tumults at Bahia. Negociations at Utrecht. Insurrection in Minas Geraes. That Government is separated from S. Paulo, and made a distinct Captaincy. CHAP. XXXIII. 1710. Alarm of invasion at the Rio. August 16. Rio de Janeiro, which throughout the Dutch war had continued to flourish during all
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, and it flourished so well that there were in a short time eight or nine sugar works established. Bahia. Noticias. MSS. 1. 26. S. Vasc. C.C. 1. 34. The coast from the great Rio de S. Francisco to the Ponta da Padram de Bahia, was given to Francisco Pereira Coutinho, a fidalgo who had distinguished himself in India; and the bay itself with all its creeks was afterwards added to the grant. He fixed his settlement in the bay at the place now called Villa Velha, which was Caramuru's dwelling place; two
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serra near, where small stones were found which were bright red, and of singular lustre. People of Bahia. There were above an hundred persons in Bahia whose income was from three to five thousand cruzados, and whose property from twenty to sixty thousand. Their wives would wear nothing but silk. The people were generally characterized by extravagance in their apparel; even men of inferior rank walked the streets in breeches of satin damask: their wives wore kirtles11 and 11 Vasquinhas e giboens
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had finally put back to Bahia with only six. Barreto requested him to expel the French from Paraiba; two ships under Diogo Vaz da Veiga were also lying at Bahia, on their way home from Goa; with these in addition to his own fleet Flores sailed to Pernambuco; and troops were collected there who advanced by land while the maritime force proceeded. There were four French vessels in the river. Flores entered to attack them with his own ship, that of Diogo Vaz, and all the boats; the French abandoned
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proceed to attack it. An insolent answer was returned, that he had better remain where he was than draw after him to Bahia, the ill-fortune of Pernambuco. After such an answer there was no alternative; he stationed himself at Seregipe, and renewed that system of predatory warfare which he had formerly found so successful. The Dutch at Fort Mauritz were at this time endeavouring to carry off the cattle from this Captaincy, in the vain hope of distressing Bahia for provisions; and skirmishes were
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