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CHAP. XIX. 1641. Cast. Lus. 5. 24. Ericeyra. 1. 495. sions, he was instructed to take every thing from them, and warn them that on a third attempt their lives would be the forfeiture. These orders he obeyed so well that the conquerors were imprisoned within the town which they had so dishonourably won, and reduced to depend for subsistence upon what they received by sea. Spanish and Neapolitan troops sent from Bahia. Valeroso Lucideno. p. 115. Bahia had lost a great part of its force in

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Government should gladly grant Cardozo and his men a safe conduct to return to Bahia. Fernandes replied, that it was useless to propose a plan to which Cardozo, as a soldier and a man of honour, could never consent. Leaving them then, he hastened to Cardozo, to tell him what had occurred, and who the persons were whom he suspected of being the traitors, that he might be on his guard against them. and to make Cardozo return to Bahia. This warning was in good time. While Cardozo was brooding over

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CHAP. XXI. 1645. be delayed when he should receive the news of this success. They therefore recalled Haus to Recife, where his troops were now considered to be necessary for the defence of the place. Embassy to Bahia. About three weeks before the battle, Hoogstraten and another deputy had again been sent to Bahia, to express the full persuasion of the Dutch Government that Camaram and Diaz were in no degree authorized in their invasion by the Portugueze Governor; and to request that he would

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musquetry, went with the Chaplain of the Establishment into the Church, and kneeling before St. Sebastian's altar, implored his assistance for their countrymen. Immediately the image began to sweat, like one who was violently exerting himself; and the drops continued to run as long as the action lasted, so that all who were present wetted their handkerchiefs in the miraculous effusion. Blaar murdered on the way to Bahia. Joam Fernandes was now undisputed master of the field, in a country where he

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leave to serve in Bahia, feeling humiliated in their present situation: their request was granted, and on their arrival at S. Salvador they were appointed to the same rank in a Portugueze regiment. The Dutch suspect the deserters. As the contest was now carried on with all the mines and countermines of insidious policy, the Camp-Masters upon this occasion framed a letter to the Dutch Governors, which purported to be written by one of their friends, and stated, that Nicolzon and his party were

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to record them: nor ought such things, incidental and undecisive as they are, to be always left unnoticed in history. A true sense of the evils of war can never be impressed too strongly upon mankind: woe be to those through whose guilt they are inflicted, .. and woe be to those also who shrink from enduring them when duty requires the sacrifice. Schoppe recalled from Bahia. Nieuhoff, 119. Cast. Lus. 8, 38. Vasr. Vida de Almeida, VI. 5, 5 6. The harbour, as well as the streets, was commanded

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very crude. Some months afterwards the King sent for Vieyra at an early hour from Carcavelos, where he was recovering from an illness, to Alcantara. You are a prophet, said he: News arrived from Bahia last night that Schoppe has fortified himself in Itaparica: what shall we do? Vieyra replied, The remedy is very easy. Your ministers said my project was crude; since they found it crude then, let them cook it now. A Council was held, and Vieyra, by the King's desire, waited on him the next day to

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CHAP. XXII. 1647. Cartos de Vieyra, T. 2, C. 118. sum! Immediately he hastened to Lisbon, and wrote to a merchant whom he had formerly known in Bahia, saying, the King wanted a loan to that amount, which would be repaid by a tax upon sugar. In two hours this Duarte da Sylva and another merchant promised the money. Vieyra accordingly took them to the King, and the business was managed so that the ministers had the whole credit to themselves. Vieyra is sent to Holland. Vieyra Cartos, T. 2, C

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name from the Saint on the day of whose translation he was baptized in the Cathedral of that city. When he was in his eighth year his parents removed to Bahia, where he went to the Jesuits' school. At first he was only remarkable for stopping regularly on the way to worship the images of N. Senhora da F , or of another Lady called N. Senhora das Maravilhas, both which idols were in high repute at Bahia; but he was behind-hand in his studies, and his intellects appeared to be clouded. The boy felt

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this sum; but 600,000 cruzados were still wanting, and a free gift was requested toward the deficiency. The Chamber readily consented to the assessment, and voted toward the dowry an annual contribution of 20,000 cruzados, for the like term of sixteen years. Six persons were named to consult with the Vereadores, and apportion the tax. Of the 140,000 cruzados which were to be raised, Bahia took 80,000 upon itself; the remaining sixty were divided2 among the other thirteen Captaincies. 1 This is

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government by Antonio de Sousa de Menezes, of the Silver Arm, so called from the costly and inconvenient substitute which he wore for a limb lost in the Pernambucan war; he was of high family, and far advanced in life: it was hoped that years had given him discretion, and that being childless he would not be greedy of wealth. Unfortunately he had become familiar at Lisbon with Francisco Telles de Menezes, a native of Bahia, whom the Conde de Obidos had sent prisoner to Portugal; but who, being

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tribunal, the innocence of the two brothers was substantiated and fully acknowledged by the Court, and the General of the Company, as if to mark the opinion of his Order respecting Vieyra, appointed him Visitor of the Province. 1636. Pestilence in Brazil. Bahia had scarcely begun to enjoy a regular and benignant administration when it was visited by pestilence. The disease began in Recife, where it carried off more than two thousand persons; it soon reached Olinda, and spread itself over the Varzea

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trace remained either of the religion, language, or manners of Holland. The ambitious struggle which the Dutch carried on so long, with such inhumanity, and such an expence of treasure and of blood, produced no other benefit than that of proving, as a warning for other powers, how impossible it is to effect a permanent conquest of Brazil. A people of such determined nationality as the Portugueze, in such a country, are invincible by any human force. Population of Bahia. Papel Forte. Ms. Noticias

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who were persecuted with such devilish cruelty and inconceivable impolicy in the mother country and in Spain. Much as the Brazilians abhorred a Jew, and suspected all of Jewish race, they were by no means willing to have a Holy Office established in their country: the20 attempts of that execrable institution to extend 19 As the Portugueze prisons are infamously bad, it is curious that Dellon should describe that at Bahia as le plus propre of all he had been in before; and he had tried many in

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danger, where there is a sure prospect of gain. In the early part of the seventeenth century, many of them in that city were worth from sixty to a hundred thousand crowns, and there were some of even greater opulence; but no wealth could purchase the respect of their bigotted countrymen. Nine or ten years were sufficient at this time for realizing a fortune in Bahia. Pyrard, who came from India, had never seen silver so common in any city as in this; .. it was smuggled from Buenos Ayres by an

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CHAP. XXXI. 1693. Vieyra Cartas. 2. 449. 1694. State of the coin. the mistaken policy of both Courts, the intercourse was with common consent prohibited, goods to the amount of 300,000 cruzados were left dead upon the merchants' hands at Nova Colonia, and of double that amount at the Rio. Papel de Antonio Luiz Coutinho, M. S. Vieyra Cartas. t. 3. 399. Antonio Luiz was succeeded by D. Joam de Lancastro. The representations which had repeatedly been made of the defenceless state of Bahia were at

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sense of oppression provokes. The result was, that these unhappy but obstinate men were thrown into prison at Bahia, and detained there as long as they lived, .. so absolute was the Government, so tenacious of its sovereignty, when the precious metals were in view, and so tyranical in its proceedings. Agostinho Barbalho and Fernando Diaz, directed to pursue the search. Carta d' El Rey D. Affonso 6. MS. 27th Sept. 1664. Agostinho Barbalho Bezerra, who held the rank of Campmaster at Bahia, was

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English squadron arrived off Brest, so that if it had not been for this promptitude on the part of the Commander, the expedition would have been frustrated. He sailed from Rochelle with his collected force on the 9th of June: the passage was delayed by contrary gales which continued a full month, but on the 27th of August he arrived in the latitude of Bahia: he then called a council of war, and proposed to visit that port on the way, and capture or destroy the vessels which might be found there

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the cost of private adventurers, but with the assistance of government; and Bahia was the chief object in view. The command was given to M. Cassar, who was thought more proper for such expeditions than Du Guay-Trouin; but the Abb de Polignac pronounced the best eulogy upon that gallant seaman, when he rated him below the present commander, because he preferred the glorious to the profitable, and if he fell in with an enemy's fleet, would engage the ships of war, instead of making it his chief

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1716. able to the people, and the Governor therefore was instructed again to accept the thirty arrobas (about 50,400l.). A Recolhimento founded at Bahia. Under the viceroyalty of the Marquez de Angeja an institution was opened at Bahia, of a kind which has often been advised, and is greatly needed in Protestant Countries, and no where more needed than in England at this time; .. a Recolhimento, or retreat for women, who were bound by no vows nor distinguished by any habit, but

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; and its capital, Villa do Principe, had been made a town about fourteen years before the discovery, .. a discovery which accelerated the peopling of the district, but in every other respect has produced much more evil than good. When the Captaincy of Minas Geraes was separated from the Government of S. Paulo, the boundaries were to be traced between the new Captaincy and the adjoining ones of the Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco. The surveyors, who in this wild country were significantly called

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Bahia, and had moreover the advantage of greater security; for its port was strongly fortified, whereas that of Bahia was incapable of such means of defence. This change had been going on during the last fifteen years, under the successive viceroyalties of D. Luiz Peregrino de Attayde, Conde de Attouguia, of D. Marcos de Noronha, Conde dos Arcos, and of the Marquez de Lavradio, D. Antonio de Almeida Soares. The Conde da Cunha, D. Antonio Alvares da Cunha, was now appointed to that high office, and

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new and important branch of trade. The cattle from Piauhy, till the year 1769, were driven to Bahia, or Minas Geraes,.. a journey of nearly three hundred leagues, and through a country which presented many serious impediments. Joam Paulo formed establishments in the heart of the grazing country, eighty leagues up the river, for jerking beef, brought it down the stream to Parnaiba, and exported it to Bahia, the Rio, and Para. About the end of the last century, sixteen or seventeen vessels came

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standing hay; and when that is consumed, the cattle perish by thousands. Patriota. 3. 3. 22. Cazal. 2. 237. Trade in cattle. Maranham, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Minas Geraes, looked chiefly to Piauhy for their cattle. The communication with Maranham is easy; that with Pernambuco lies through a country, where want of rain not unfrequently occasions extreme suffering; but between Piauhy and the Rio S. Francisco, a Sertam intervenes, varying in breadth from twelve and fifteen to forty or fifty leagues

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CHAP. XLIV. Patriota. 3. 6. 79. Salt trade from Pilam Arcado. Cazal. 2. 190. Villa da Barra do Rio Grande. receives part of the waters of the Forbidden District, and is joined by other streams which are believed to be rich in diamonds and in gold. When it enters the Captaincy of Bahia it flows through a desert country; and the upper part of its course, when it touches Pernambuco, is not through better land. Toward the close of the eighteenth century there were no other inhabitants upon its

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CHAP. XLIV. instituted (soon after the Removal,) by the Conde dos Arcos, D. Marcos de Noronha, among the many excellent measures of his government, .. the best with which Bahia ever was blessed. There were also a Misericordia with its Hospital, a Lazar-house for Lepers, at a proper distance from the city, liberally endowed, and charitably administered; an Orphan-house for the children of White parents, a Seminary for Orphans, a Theatre, a Mint, Public Tribunals of every kind, and Royal

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. Cultivation of Pepper. Arruda. Institu am. p. 9. The oriental spice trees, which Vieyra had watched with such patriotic pleasure, when at his instigation they were introduced, had been neglected and lost, and were now re-introduced more than a century afterwards. Francisco da Cunha e Menezes, sent pepper-vines from Goa not many years before the Removal; and being subsequently appointed to the Government of Bahia, interested himself greatly in the culture. Many thousand stocks were distributed

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Bahia is naturally divided by a chain of mountains of considerable elevation: from the eastern side the numerous streams proceed which flow into the Reconcave, and 28 Mr. Lindley says, that a cotton-spinner, who, about the beginning of the present century, attempted to set up a manufactory near Bahia, was sent to Europe, and his machinery destroyed. The prohibition of manufactures in a colony, is impolitic and unjust; but the speculator must have known that he was acting in defiance of the existing

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CHAP. XLIV. Comarca of Jacobina. Sertoens of Bahia. those which form the rivers of Ilheos. The western division, called the Comarca da Jacobina, from its capital, was formerly rich in gold, .. in all better things, greatly inferior to the maritime district. This portion comprehends the country on which the Rio S. Francisco enters, when it leaves its native province; and it resembles in its character the worst part of the Sertoens of Pernambuco and Seara. Population, however, was scattered

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insipidity of the fruit would not be regarded as a fault, because the Portugueze overpower every other flavour in their sweetmeats by the excess of sugar which they use. Between this town and Jacobina, which lies between two and three hundred miles to the north, the greater part of the country was uninhabited, and travellers were obliged to carry water. Rio de Contas prospered, because it was on the high way from Bahia. Along the beaten roads, from every great port to any populous part of the

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number of their slaves; they raised so much, that the meal became a great article of export to Bahia: but in 1806, the inhabitants were actually suffering scarcity, because they were afraid to cultivate their lands. The predominant race in the maritime towns were Mamalucos, of Tupiniquin extraction: there were some pure Indians; very few of pure European blood, and not many Negroes, .. the intermediate breed, of all shades, far exceeding the unmixed races. Agues were endemic; but wherever

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CHAP. XLIV. Cazal. 1. 352. Do. 338. great numbers; and they manufactured woollen cloth as well as calico. They enjoyed also the advantage of a transit trade; the caravans from Villa Boa, and Cuyaba, to the Rio, S. Paulo and Bahia, touched there, and then separated according to their destination. An elastic stone is found in this neighbourhood. But the part of this extensive Captaincy, which has the most natural advantages, is the district of New Beira, a tract one hundred and thirty leagues in

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CHAPTER II. Voyage of Pinzon and Solis. Discovery of the Rio de la Plata. The French trade to Brazil. History of Caramuru. Brazil divided into Captaincies. St. Vicente. The Goaynazes. St. Amaro and Tamaraca. Paraiba. The Goaytacazes. Espirito Santo. The Papanazes. Porto Seguro. The Tupiniquins. Captaincy of the Ilheos. Bahia. Revolutions in the Reconcave. Expulsion of the colonists there. Pernambuco. The Cahetes. The Tobayares. Siege of Garassu. Expedition of Aires da Cunha to Maranham. CHAP

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CHAP. XII. 1586. Rel. Ann. ff. 114. made them suppose they could take St. Salvador, and accordingly the Commander, who had more inclination for plunder than for the passage of the Straits, over-ruled the opinion of his Vice-Admiral, and made for Bahia. No sooner was the approach of the enemy perceived, than Christovam de Gouvea, the Jesuit visitor, sent for all the converted Indians in the adjoining country, and these formidable archers preserved the city and its immediate vicinity; but the

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CHAPTER XV. Camp of Bom Jesus formed. Calabar deserts to the Dutch, and turns the fortune of the War. Negroes of the Palmares. The Island of Itamaraca, Rio Grande. Paraiba, Tamaraca, the Camp, and Nazareth reduced. CHAP. XV. 1630. The Portugueze really. Brito Freire. 315. But in Pernambuco, as in Bahia, the Portugueze had no sooner abandoned the city, than they began to recollect themselves and recover heart. Their previous misconduct is rather attributable to ill management than to any want

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CHAPTER XVI. Emigration from Pernambuco. Porto Calvo recovered, and Calabar put to death. Succours sent out under Roxas, who is defeated and slain. Bagnuolo succeeds to the command, and carries on a harrassing warfare with success. Mauritz Count of Nassau arrives as Governor General of the Dutch; his wise measures: he pursues the Portugueze to the River St. Francisco, and Bagnuolo, abandoning the Captaincy of Seregipe, retreats to Bahia. CHAP. XVI. 1635. Emigration from Pernambuco. Mathias de

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season had set in, and time was thus gained for the Pernambucans to follow up the advantages which they had gained. But the negociations at Munster, as they emboldened the States, so they alarmed the Court of Portugal; and it was in the fear of an offensive alliance between Spain and Holland that Joam dispatched those orders to Bahia which Joam Fernandes and Vidal so bravely disobeyed. [page 174

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CHAPTER XXII. Attempt to assassinate Joam Fernandes. Second enterprize against Itamaraca. Recife, when in the utmost distress, relieved by a fleet from Holland. Schoppe returns to take the command, and makes an unsuccessful attempt upon Bahia. Barreto sent out to command the Portugueze. Battle of Guararapes. Recovery of Angola. Negociations with Holland. Brazil Company established. Second battle of Guararapes. Siege and capture of Recife. Negociations and final agreement with Holland. CHAP

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commercial pursuits, were alike conducive to political order; and the authority of the Mother Country was sustained by a regular, if not frequent intercourse, and by the appointment of men of high rank and character to the chief command. Such men brought with them more than the mere authority which their appointment conferred; the nobility of Portugal was not yet degraded; and though the vices which corrupted the administration of government in Lisbon, were but too faithfully followed in Bahia

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CHAPTER XXVIII. Barreto Governor of Brazil. Tumults in Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco. Small Pox in Brazil. Peace with Spain. The Guerens ravage the borders of Bahia, and the adjoining settlements: they are expelled by the Paulistas. Discovery and conquest of Piauhi. Foundation of Nova Colonia. Disputes with Spain concerning the left bank of the Plata. Pestilence. CHAP. XXVIII. 1657. Barreto Governor General. 1662. After the triumphant termination of the Pernambucan war, Barreto, who had borne

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CHAPTER XXX. View of the progress of Brazil during the seventeenth century. Maranham and Para: state of the revenues and establishment. Produce. Expeditions into the interior. Slavery. Seara. Rio Grande. Pernambuco. Transitory effects of the Dutch conquest. Bahia. Rio de Janeiro. S. Paulo. State of manners. Artifices of the Clergy. Audacious fables of the Jesuits. Life of F. Joam d'Almeida. CHAP. XXX. 1685. Seventy years had now elapsed since the Portugueze established themselves in Maranham

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a Quinta, or country residence belonging to the Jesuits, near Bahia, and two Canarins who understood the management both of cinnamon and pepper, were brought from Goa to attend to their culture. The Governor, Roque da Costa, was much interested in a plan which promised such beneficial consequences; and Vieyra, in his extreme old age, delighted to report to him the state of the plants and their increase. But Vieyra feared that care and perseverance would be wanting to go on with what had been so

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Freyre was sent out ostensibly as Governor to Pernambuco, but in reality to provide for receiving them; and in conformity to the King's directions, Vieyra, who was then in Maranham, received orders to hold himself in readiness to join him there and assist him with his counsel. The reason for preferring Pernambuco to Bahia seems to have been because Recife was the stronger place, and capable of holding out against any force which Spain might send against the royal refugees. The danger was indeed

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HISTORY OF BRAZIL. CHAPTER XXXI. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham. Expedition against the tribes on the Orellana. Settlement of the French at Cayene. Mathias da Cunha Governor General. Mutiny at Bahia. Antonio Luiz Goncalez da Camara Coutinho. D. Joam de Lancastro. Money coined in Brazil. War against the Negroes of the Palmares. Disputes with France concerning the boundary. Death of Vieyra. Troubles excited by the Bishop of Maranham. CHAP. XXXI. 1686. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham

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CHAPTER XXXII. Discovery of the Minas Geraes. First code of regulations. Discovery and fate of Marcos de Azevedo. Gold exhibited at Espirito Santo by Antonio Rodriguez Arzam. Bertolomeu Bueno inherits his papers and prosecutes his researches. Growth of Settlements. Second code. Influx of adventurers to the Minas. Decay of commerce in consequence at Bahia. D. Rodrigo da Costa Governor General. Siege of Nova Colonia, which is evacuated by the Portugueze. Luiz Cesar de Menezes Governor. Affairs

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; and the general introduction of a civilized in place of a savage language, removed an obstacle which, so long as it continued, must have precluded any intellectual advancement. Recorda oens, de Ratton. 57. Cazal. 2. 256. 276. Whaling Company. Carvalho also chartered an exclusive Company for the Whale Fishery; it formed establishments upon the coast of Bahia and [page] 55

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, i. 642. Mitayos, under the encomienda system, ii. 260. Mocambo, or Negro hiding-place in the woods, movement of Joam Fernandes to a, ii. 95. Mocambos, villages of the Palmares, i. 495. Mocobis, an equestrian tribe, iii. 397. Mompo, D. Fernando, excites a faction of the commons in Paraguay, iii. 233; arrested by Barreyro, 237. Money, clipt, enormous amount of in Bahia, iii. 883. Money, table of, iii. 900. Moni o, D. Joseph, minister of Spain, iii. 664. (See Florida Blanca.) Moniz Barreiro

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; their attempts to relieve Nazareth, 509; it capitulates, 513; emigration from Pernambuco, 514; recover Porto Calvo, 516; reinforcements arrive under Roxas, 521; Bagnuolo succeeds to the command, 524; Predatory system of warfare, 526; second emigration from Pernambuco, 527; pursued by Nassau to the San Francisco, 533; retreat to Bahia, 543; loss of St. Jorge da Mina, 544; Seara taken by the Dutch, 546; proceedings at Recife, 547; Bahia entered, and St. Salvador besieged, 551; letters intercepted

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Tourinho and Adorno in search of mines ib. Settlement at Rio Real made and abandoned 314 The two governments reunited 315 Brazil offered to the Duke of Braganza ib. Attempt of Antonio the Prior upon Brazil 316 State of Brazil at this time ib. St. Salvador and the Reconcave 317 Tea and coffee indigenous there 320 Culture of ginger prohibited ib. Leafless parasite plants 321 Fishery at Bahia 322 Mermaids 323 Rumours of emerald mines ib. People of Bahia ib. Pernambuco 324 St. Vicente 325 Espirito

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Ravages of the Aymores 385 They are conciliated by Alvaro Rodriguez in Bahia ib. And at Ilheos by the Jesuits 387 Success of the Jesuits 389 Settlement at Seara 391 French expedition to Maranham 392 Foundation of S. Luiz 397 Rasilly returns to France 399 Gaspar de Sousa ordered to colonize towards the Orellana 400 First expedition of Jeronymo de Alhuquerque ib. Diogo de Campos sent out 401 Martim Soares driven to Europe 402 Second expedition of Jeronymo 403 His junction with Diogo 404 They