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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. Emigration from Pernambueo 514 Treachery of Sonto towards the Dutch 515 Porto Calvo recovered 516
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Bahia ib. Small pox in Brazil 554 Vidal Governor of Pernambuco 555 Succeeded by Jeronymo Furtado ib. Discontents at Olinda 556 Peace with Spain 558 Settlement of Cayru ib. The Guerens infest Bahia and the adjoining provinces 562 Death of Manoel Barbosa 563 The Paulistas called in against the Guerens 564 [page] x
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, 73; promises to assist Fernandes in the deliverance of Pernambuco, 79; sends troops from Bahia under Vidal and Martim Soares, 119; sends orders that Pernambuco shall be relinquished to the Dutch, 169; returns to Portugal, 231. Telles de Menezes, Alcaide Mor of Bahia, ii. 581; killed by Brito de Castro, 582. Temembos, or Macamecrans, tribe of, in Maranham, iii. 747. Temple, Sir William, cited respecting the climate of Brazil, iii. 898. Tertre, du, cited respecting the Dutch settlers ejected from
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, subject to the Province of Portugal. Two years afterwards D. Pedro Fernandes Sardinha arrived as Bishop of Brazil, bringing with him Priests, Canons, and Dignitaries, and Church ornaments of every kind for his Cathedral; he had studied and graduated at Paris, had held the office of Vicar-General in India, and, unhappily for himself, was now sent to Bahia. At this time no better colonists could be sent out than the Clergy, for none were employed upon this mission except such as were selected for
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CHAP. IX. 1556. Vasc. Vid. de Anchieta. l. 2. c. 1. 2. Pimentel 305. had long traded with the French. Rio de Janeiro, like Bahia, seems to have been formerly a great fresh-water lake, which has broken down its barrier. The water almost touches the foot of the Organ mountains, so called from some resemblance which has been fancied in their form, and the whole bay is surrounded by one of the highest and most rugged parts of the Cordillera. The entrance is between two high rocks, through a strait
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CHAP. XIII. 1615. The treaty broken by the Portugueze .. July 31. Berredo. 376 380. The terms of the treaty were not long observed; little infractions, if not openly countenanced, were at least permitted on both sides. After awhile succours poured in to Jeronymo, some from Bahia and Pernambuco under Francisco Caldeira de Castello Branco, others from Portugal under Miguel de Sequeira Sanhudo. Upon receiving these reinforcements, he informed Ravardiere that instructions were come out to him from
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CHAP. XIV. 1623. been more welcome; but another storm interrupted their hopes, and the fleet was again separated. Vandort was driven back to Serra Leoa; Willekens beat on against the wind, and made the Morro de St. Paulo, twelve leagues from Bahia, where he remained off the coast waiting for Vandort: he expected that this delay would lessen the alarm which his appearance occasioned, and that the Portugueze would suppose he had been driven there by stress of weather. St. Salvador taken. The
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heavy expence of men, in the fatal climate of the Cape de Verds, before the Spanish fleet joined them. It consisted of forty sail and eight thousand soldiers under D. Fadrique de Toledo. So powerful a fleet had never before crossed the line. The Bishop is superseded, and dies. Jornada da Bahia. c. 24. Cespedes. 5. 20. Meantime Mathias de Albuquerque received tidings of his nomination to the government in consequence of the succession-papers, and also by a direct appointment from the mother
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Rico, from whence they were driven with great loss; the other half attempted to surprise S. Jorge da Mina, and were in like manner repulsed. Henrik died of the contagion; the survivors being weary of buccaneering, and dispirited, mutinied at last, and compelled their officers to return to Holland. Disasters of the Portugueze fleet. This expedition to Bahia proved equally destructive to both parties. D. Fadrique left D. Francisco de Moura Rolim, the new Governor, with a sufficient garrison in
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this work of havock returned to Fort Mauritz. Thus instead of taking the forsaken inhabitants under their protection, and conciliating them by fair treatment, they drove them on to Bahia, and increased the strength of St. Salvador with a body of men rendered formidable by despair, and the memory of their wrongs. During this campaign in the Captaincy of Seregipe, a tremendous havock was made among the cattle. Bagnuolo is said to have driven away eight thousand head, and slaughtered five, rather
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CHAP. XVII. 1639. transported to Bahia, others to a farther banishment. Farther enquiry produced no confirmation of the suspected plot, yet because a rumour prevailed that a Spanish fleet was looked for, these men were neither acquitted nor condemned, but still kept in confinement. Artisjoski comes out, but soon returns in disgust. Barl us. 103 7. Early in the ensuing year, Artisjoski returned to Brazil with a small reinforcement, and with orders to act as a secret inspector over Nassau; a
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savages were politickly quartered in the island of Itamaraca as hostages, while they were let loose upon Bahia. Nassau's next measure was to expel all the Religioners from the conquered provinces, and then Jol was sent to the Reconcave, to lay it waste with fire and sword at a time when the main force being absent, no resistance could be made. These instructions were executed, and the whole of the sugar-works in that extensive bay, then the most prosperous in America, were totally consumed. By this
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CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER XIX. The Revolution in Portugal announced to Nassau 1 Truce for ten years concluded with Holland 2 Treachery of the Dutch 4 Embassy of Vilhena to Recife ib. Paulo da Cunha and Henrique Diaz recalled from Pernambuco 5 The Dutch surprise Seregipe 6 Spanish and Neapolitan troops sent from Bahia 7 Expedition of the Dutch against Angola ib. Effects of the loss of Loanda upon Brazil 10 Expedition against the Island of S. Thomas 11 The Governor capitulates 12 Mortality among
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. Flourishing state of Olinda before the war 657 Growth of Recife 658 Few intermarriages between the Dutch and the Portugueze ib. Population of Bahia 659 Commercial prosperity 660 New Christians 661 Influx of silver from Buenos Ayres ib. Whale fishery ib. Sugar 662 Boypeba, Cayru, and Camamu 663 Ilheos ib. Its inland navigation ib. And ungenial climate 664 Porto Seguro 664 Ravaged by the Savages ib. Espirito Santo 665 Campos dos Goaitacazes ib. Cabo Frio 667 Population of Rio de Janeiro ib. Ilha
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have considered how disproportionate such plans of conquest were to their population, and to their means of maintaining what they might acquire. St. Luiz, like St. Salvador and Olinda, had been easily won; but in Maranham, as in Bahia and Pernambuco, the people whom the incapacity of their rulers had betrayed, soon began to work for their own deliverance. Here, even more than in other parts, the Dutch provoked insurrection by their misconduct. Many of the Portugueze had connected themselves by
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afterwards by the Governor's death, seems little to have impeded his progress. He was now undisputed master of the country, and the Dutch dared not venture beyond the town. Fortunately for them, a ship from the Isle of Fayal, laden with wines for Bahia, was driven by stress of weather into the Bay of Ara agy, near S. Luiz. This vessel they boarded and captured; they had three other ships in the harbour, but all so ill provided, that they [page] 4
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concealed by Joam Fernandes; one faithful servant, by name Miguel Fernandes, being the only person entrusted with the secret. He had begun to make deposits of arms, ammunition, provisions, and money upon his different estates, and in the woods; but it had not been possible to collect arms enough, and four of these auxiliaries were sent back to Bahia to solicit a supply. The letter which they carried was written in such a manner that its enigmatical meaning would readily VOL. II. L [page] 7
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were who listened with dissembled fear, and resolved to provide for their own safety by giving immediate information to the Dutch Government. All, however, requested that they might see Cardozo. A second meeting was appointed for the ensuing day, at a stock farm belonging to Joam Fernandes; and there the parties met, going singly, and taking different routes. Cardozo confirmed to them what they had already heard of the approbation and support of the Governor at Bahia, and the advance of Camaram
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CHAP. XXI. 1646. Val. Luc. 299. Cast. Lus. 7, 85. order that he would not countersign it; but he gave the example of obedience, and ordered fire to be first set to his own canes, which were consumed, to the value of 200,000 cruzados. It was not long before a revocation of the order came from Bahia, but it was too late; the mischief had been done, and though not carried to its full extent, the evil consequences were severely experienced. Distress in Racife. Vol. I. p. 391. By this time the
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studies, and devote himself wholly to the Indians; but his superiors were now well aware of his popular talents, and would not thus dispose of a subject, who was qualified to shine in cabinets and courts. Being ordained Priest in 1635, he lectured on theology at Bahia, and when the news of the Ac 6 There he composed commentaries upon Seneca's Tragedies and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Both were lost during the wars which ensued, and he himself in riper years regretted the latter. He began also a
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CHAP. XXVIII. ten square miles. Between these, in the wide waters which separate them upon the coast, and about six leagues from each, is the Island of4 Cayr , about eight miles in circumference, consisting of high and rugged ground, ill adapted for cultivation. The main land, for an extent of some sixty or seventy miles, from the River Jaguaribe to the Gequia, is very fertile. In the early times of Brazil, Sebastiam de Pontes, a wealthy man who possessed two Engenhos in Bahia, established
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were chiefly intended) than to resist a regular besieging force. D. Manoel Lobo dispatched letters soliciting aid to the Rio, to Bahia, and Pernambuco: the nearest of these points was far distant, and the enemy lost no time in assaulting his feeble fortifications. Garro came in person to direct the attack: his arrangements were curiously injudicious; for he proposed that the four thousand horses should be driven before the troops to receive the first discharge of artillery from the works, and
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College, entered the houses of the inhabitants at night, and sometimes twice in the night, if he thought that any persons whom he wished to arrest were harboured there, and upon the merest suspicion, or pretext of suspicion, he persecuted persons whose innocence was as notorious as his own tyranny. This became intolerable at last. The Vereador, one of the principal fidalgos of Bahia, who had been seized and degraded by the Governor, and declared incapable of holding any office, was commissioned to
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such occasions, calling him that most prudent Prince, who so regularly spared men for murders of this kind, that it became a proverbial saying, Kill for the King pardons. The Government rarely, or never punished such crimes, and even when the intention of committing them was publicly known, found it impossible to protect the intended victim. A Frenchman who had for some years practised as physician at Bahia, was called in by a widow to her daughter, who was young, beautiful, and rich. He had the
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responsibility to their successors. Caetano de Mello determined to make a vigorous effort for extirpating them before they became too powerful; and he applied to the Governor General, soliciting the aid of Domingos Jorge, Camp-master of a regiment of Paulistas which was stationed at that time at Pinhanco in the interior of Bahia. This officer accordingly was directed to repair to Porto Calvo, and there form a junction with the troops from Olinda and Recife, and the Ordenanza of the VOL. III. E [page
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CHAP. XXXII. 1703. diately made for attacking Nova Colonia, and the Governor Sebastiam da Veiga sent to Bahia and to the Rio for succour. Four hundred men, with stores and ammunition, were embarked with the utmost activity from the former city. As they were crossing the bar, a ship homeward bound from the Spanish Indies came in, having been driven thus widely out of her course, in distress for provisions and water, standing in need of repairs, and ignorant of the war. There were not wanting
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require the assistance of these powers, lest such assistance should be deemed an equivalent for the barrier which Portugal was then claiming from Spain: this it could not be if the maritime powers were left to feel their own interest in interfering. On the other hand, they were aware that the preservation of Brazil was of more importance to Portugal than any extension of her own frontier, and they knew the perilous insecurity of Bahia, which gave but too much probability to a report, that Du Guay
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such troops, and so numerous, had been selected for the service. Could Colonia be regarded as an adequate object for such an armament, .. the largest that Spain had ever sent 13 to America? He had taken 13 Larger armaments had been sent for the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, and during the Dutch war. But those armaments might be considered as belonging rather to Portugal than Spain; or Zeballos might not have recollected them. [page] 64
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cane: brackish water is found by digging only a few palms, and that water reaches the roots; [the sugar therefore is bad,] and yet twice the cost of what it is at Bahia. Ships for the navy were built here, and timber exported to Lisbon for the use of the arsenals to a great amount. The Prince Regent of Portugal had given orders that botanical gardens should be established in the chief capitals of Brazil: the order was fulfilled with more success at Para than in any other place, because with more
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CHAP. XLIV. Lindley. 54. Do. 108. Koster. 36. Lindley. 55. Koster. 273. Correio. Braz. t. 7. 205. The streets of Bahia were narrow, ill-paved, and almost as filthy as those of Lisbon itself. The shops were gloomy; they had drop-lattices instead of windows, and a few only of the better houses were glazed. Even the middle classes were not habituated to the use of knives and forks: they rolled the meat, vegetables, and mandioc-meal, into a ball in the palm of the hand, after the Moorish manner
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its supply. The houses consisted generally of two floors, and had latticed balconies. The Convents and Churches were well built: the Cathedral was upon a handsome scale, but unfinished: the Mint, the Military and Naval Arsenals, and the Custom-house, are called magnificent edifices. There were inns, which to an Englishman appeared abominably bad:.. they could not possibly be worse than in the Mother Country. The prisons, as at Bahia and in Portugal, were in a loathsome and disgraceful state
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certainly did not command the Portugueze army in Paraguay; .. he may have been attached to it (though his name does not occur in the Journal of the expedition); or it is possible that Jose Francisco Pinto Alpoym, who held the rank of Colonel in that army, may have been his kinsman, and that Luiz Pinto spoke upon his testimony. He himself might have been conversant with the Moxo Jesuits while he was Governor of Mato Grosso. 29. Jesuits at Bahia, p. 543.] In the Italian Anecdotes of Pombal (T. 2. 135
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landed proprietors) of Argyleshire, are Campbells, from a similar cause. 39. Convents at Bahia, p. 795.] When Pedro desired the Procurador da Coroa, Manoel Lopes de Oliveira, to inquire concerning the application made for founding a new Convent at Bahia, the Procurador replied, that it was much more expedient for his royal service to suppress those which were already established, than to establish any more. However, instead of rejecting the petition for one, leave was granted to found five. D
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Janeiro by the French under Du Clerc, 109; expedition under Du Guay Trouin, 116; Vasconcellos, Governor, 126; tumults at Bahia, ib.; the Marquez de Angeja Viceroy, 130; alarms respecting the designs of England, 131; negociations at Utrecht, 132; difficulty respecting the commerce of Brazil, 133; measures in Minas Geraes, 143; S. Paulo made a city, 145; a recolhimento founded at Bahia, 151; Conde do Vimieiro, Governor, 152; the Paulistas defeated by the Spaniards of Santa Cruz, 172; restrictions
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; take S. Jorge da Mina, 545; take Seara, 546; proceedings at Recife, 547; preparations against Bahia, 549; enter the bay, 551; take four of the forts, 553; open their batteries, 555; battle in the trenches, 557; their cruelty, 558, raise the siege, 559; the Company in Holland open the trade to Brazil, 561; arms given to the Captaincies, 563; state of them, 564; want of colonists, 565; Jews, 566; Savages, ib.; missionaries, 567; military force, ib.; Mauritias built, 569; four naval actions, 571; lay
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am, 575. St. Salvador, in Bahia, founded, i. 213, 215; state of, in 1581, 317; taken by the Dutch, 441; they strengthen the city, 442; make a successfnl sally, 449; they capitulate, 450; the city besieged by Nassau, 551; the siege raised, 559. (See Bahia.) S. Salvador, town of, on the river Paraiba do Sul, iii. 818. S. Sebastian, founded, i. 302; (See Rio de Janeiro.) S. Sebastians, isle of, near the Bay of Santos, iii. 851; description of an idol in, from Roggewein's Voyage, 898. S. Teresa, the
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indigenous, 321; orders for burning all those in Pernambuco, sent from Bahia, ii. 157 Sumacas, or smacks of the Dutch in Brazil, i. 493. Sumaumeira, tree, iii. 724; query whether it be that which Dampier describes at Bahia, 897. Sumidouro, of the river San Francisco, i. 534; meaning of the term, iii. 48. Sylva, Duarte do, with another merchant, advances a loan for Brazil, ii. 197. Sylva, Pedro da, Governor of Bahia, i. 541; receives Bagnuolo on his retreat to St. Salvador, 543; resigns the command
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of the woods, the parrots, and monkies of Brazil. Two of these traders discovered a magnificent bay, one of the finest in the world, and which no navigator had yet entered. Unfortunately for them, a Portugueze squadron under the command of Christovam Jaques entered it about the same time: he named it All Saints bay4 ... Bahia de Todos os Santos; and coasting along its shores and exploring all its creeks and coves, in one of them he discovered these Frenchmen, and proceeded to capture them as
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Patriarch's rising round him. The best families in Bahia trace their origin to him. Caramuru goes to France. At length a French vessel came into the bay, and Diogo resolved to take that opportunity of once more seeing his native country. He loaded her with brazil, and embarked with his favourite wife Paraguazu, .. the Great River. The others could not bear this abandonment, though it was only to be for a time; some of them swam after the ship in hopes of being taken on board, and one followed it so
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CHAP. II. 1531. Gaspar da M. de Deos. 1. 29. 30. for delicacies, and for the wafer. Marmalade was made here and sold to the other Captaincies. Oysters of such a size are found here, that their shells are used for dishes, .. and once when a Bishop of Bahia visited this province, they washed his feet in one, as in a bason. The whole coast abounds with shell-fish, which the natives came down from the interior to catch at certain seasons: they built their huts upon some dry spot amid the mango
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was sufficient title; but 5 Ornio, he writes the name. Three brothers of the Adornos were among the first settlers here. One removed to Bahia, and married a daughter of Caramuru. Giuseppe lived to be more than a hundred, .. the story which S. Vasconcellos tells, (C. da Comp. L. 1. . 76.) is known to relate to him. The descendants of these brothers are very numerous. Gaspar da M. de Deos. P. 52. [page] 18
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, a fidalgo, though a bastard, who had been tried and approved in the African and Indian wars. .. He was instructed to build a city in Bahia de Todos os Santos, strong enough not only to keep the natives in awe, but also to resist the attack of any more formidable enemy; .. a wise foresight this of European competition. It was to be called St. Salvador, and here the seat of government was to be established; the arms which were given to the new city were a white dove with three olive leaves in
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claim than his successful opponent, renounced the world in a fit of disgust3; little then aware that this renunciation would make him act a more important part in it, than could else with all his talents and fair prospects have been within his reach. City of St. Salvador founded. Noticias. MSS. p. 2. c. 2. Nobrega. Div. Avisi. 33. Andrada. 4. 32. The fleet reached Bahia early in the April of 1549. Old Caramuru was, at this time, quietly settled at some little distance from Coutinho's deserted
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CHAP. IX. 1564. S. Vasc. C. C. 3. 56. 57. Do. Vida de Anch. 2. 10. 1. 2. vernor's nephew, was sent out with two galeons to Bahia, and carried with him orders for his uncle to supply him with the force of the colony for this service. Mem de Sa collected all the vessels he could, and instructed Estacio to enter the bar of Rio de Janeiro, observe the force of the enemy and the number of their ships, and, if there were good hope of victory, decoy them out into the open sea; but by all means to
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Indians were raised, canoes made ready, and stores provided: others came from Bahia and Espirito Santo, forming altogether a more considerable force than those persons who opposed the expedition had thought it possible to raise. These preparations lasted till the end of the year. In January they were ready with six ships of war, a proportionate number of small craft, and nine canoes of Mamalucos and Indians, with whom Nobrega sent Anchieta and another Jesuit, being the best commanders that
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came to the camp, and dispatched Anchieta to Bahia there to be ordained, for as yet he was only a temporal coadjutor, and to look after the affairs of the Company. He had more important business to transact with the Governor. To him he represented that nothing could be effected with so small a force, and that either one effort more must be made to strengthen it, or the attempt must be abandoned. Mem de Sa raised all the succours he could, and arrived with them in person on the eighteenth of January
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there were other mountains in which iron was to be found, of finer quality than Milan steel. Settlement made at Rio Real, and abandoned. Noticias. MSS. 1 25 26. The French, driven from the ports which they formerly frequented, now traded to Rio Real, and orders were sent from Portugal to form a settlement there for the purpose of excluding them. Garcia de Avila was sent upon this service; he was of Bahia, and his wealth consisted in great herds of cattle, which fed upon the low lands about
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Brazil was written, which has so often been referred to in this history as the best, oldest, and sometimes the single authority for many of its leading facts. The author had resided seventeen years in that country, and was owner of some sugar-works in Bahia. His materials were written upon the spot, and were arranged at Madrid, to be laid before D. Christovam de Moura, the Portugueze Minister, for the express purpose of informing him of the actual state of these colonies, their infinite
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. lived, who is now in glory, says the Memorialist, he was so fond of this country, and especially of Bahia, that he would have made Brazil one of the finest kingdoms in the world, and St. Salvador, one of the noblest cities in all his dominions. The cathedral church had a pompous but poor establishment, consisting of five Dignitaries, six Canons, two Minor Canons, four Chaplains, one Cura and Coadjutor, four Choristers, and a Master of the Choir; but few of these ministers were in full orders, and
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oyster shells, as at St. Vicente; these however were in such abundance, that boats might be filled with them at all times. To no part of the world has the sea been more bountiful than to Bahia. The principal diet used at the sugar works consisted in crabs, sharks, and a fish called the chareo; the roe of this latter is salted, prest, and dried for a sea store, in which state it is much esteemed. Oil was extracted in considerable quantities from the shark-liver. Whales were not uncommon; and
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