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CHAP. XXII. 1648. broken, and poverty, ruin, and dejection would prepare an easy conquest for the Dutch in the remaining provinces of Brazil and in Maranham. But what, he continued, could Holland do against us? Send one expedition against Brazil, and another against our own coasts. Should they attack Bahia or the Rio, they could not take those places, being timely provided, as they might be, ... or they could not hold them. They cannot prey upon our commerce if our ships sail in convoy; and if

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, the insurgents would be cut off from Bahia, [page] 22

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the good faith of the Dutch; now that Angola was recovered they must look to Portugal for their supply of slaves; their canes might easily be destroyed by a few slaves from Bahia; and the States were now treating for a salt-contract, which of itself would effectually bind them. They offered to pay the duties beforehand in military stores, at the Government price; they would employ four or five hundred ships in the trade, and all the persons engaged in it would be so many hostages, and all their

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CHAP. XXII. 1648. O Papel Forte, MSS. culties, the consequences, the impossibilities! Only two blows are required to deprive us of India and of Brazil; one which should take Goa, one which should take Bahia; .. both so practicable, so easy, so certain! The bulwark of peace would secure both. Your Majesty's predecessors knew this, and by keeping peace with all the world they were masters of three parts of it. Let us keep all our resources for the struggle with Castille, in which alone we have

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CHAP. XXII. 1653. was forwarded to Barreto, desiring that the ships in the ports of Pernambuco might be ready to join the fleet as it past by on the way to Bahia, at which time that part of the convoy which was bound for these parts would run in; and the commander was desired to take proper measures for protecting them. On the seventh of December this advice was received, and on the twentieth the convoy came in sight of Recife. Some Dutch frigates, which attempted to harass them, were beaten

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hundred and fifty Indians had retired toward Seara. A Dutch colonel, by name Nicolaas, saved some of the distant garrisons; he got out of Recife upon a raft, and carried the news to Itamaraca, Paraiba, and the Potengi: at the first of these places four hundred men surrendered; but when the Portugueze arrived at Paraiba, they found that the enemy had embarked, with all their artillery and stores. Pedro Jaques and Brito Freire now proceeded with the convoy to Bahia, bearing with them the tidings of

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had not found allies among the tribes from Pernambuco and the Potengi, they could not so long have held their ground, nor have so greatly endangered the existence of the Portugueze in Brazil. During that war the southern provinces were not attacked, and consequently Rio de Janciro flourished more than it could possibly have done had Bahia and Pernambuco continued in peace. But the loss of the African possessions severely affected this part of the country: the Portugueze could no longer procure

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, made their complaint to the governor of that city, but soon found that if he had the disposition to give them redress he had not the power. They proceeded to Rio de Janeiro, and demanded an order for the deliverance of their neophytes, and for the protection of the Reductions. Here they were referred to the Governor General, as the only person who had authority for such measures; so they then went to Bahia. It was during Oliveira's government: he heard them with apparent interest, and appointed

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, forbade their embarkation; but they appealed to the Dutchess of Mantua, and by her interference were allowed to proceed. The ship was compelled by storms to put into Rio de Janeiro. There Diaz Ta o consulted with F. Pedro Mota, the Visitor in Brazil, and with the approbation of the other clergy read the Bull of Excommunication in the Jesuits' church. In Bahia perhaps this might have been done safely; but Rio de Janeiro was too near St. Paulo, and many of its inhabitants were connected with the

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CHAP. XXVI. 1653. See Vol. 1. p. 219. Priests, was the character of what there were; they either came there as banished men for their misconduct, or to seek a living which they could not get elsewhere; and they were virtually under no jurisdiction; for they were in the Bishop of Brazil's diocese, who resided at Bahia, five hundred leagues off, with the Dutch between, and no means of communication except through Portugal. To a sincere and pious Catholic, such as Joam IV., this evil would appear

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. Meantime Vieyra had attempted a longer voyage in the same direction with no better success. He sailed for Bahia, to lay the state of Maranham before the Provincial, and obtain more labourers for the vineyard; after more than seven weeks he also was on the point of putting back in despair, when the Tobajara messenger was recognized coming down the coast in a canoe, with ten Indians from the Serra, bringing letters from their chiefs; the letters were written on Venetian paper, and sealed with Dutch

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obstinacy; they governed in their own name for a few months, then substituted Joam Correa, the son of Salvador, in his father's place, as an easy step toward the submission which they now perceived to be inevitable. Orders ere long arrived for arresting the Procurador do Povo and the officers of the seditious Chamber, and sending them to Lisbon; and the Governor shortly afterwards returned, to the great joy of the well-disposed inhabitants. 1665. Carmelites established at Bahia. Barreto held the

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CHAP. XXVIII. 1665. Small pox in Brazil. Reformed Carmelites of S. Teresa came to try their fortunes in Brazil. The people of Bahia and the Reconcave presently enabled them to build a small Hospicio, as it was called, upon a spot bearing the appropriate name of Pregui a, or Sloth; but alms and endowments were ere long poured upon them in such abundance that they erected one of the most sumptuous Convents belonging to the order. This was a fatal year to Brazil. The small pox broke out in

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powerful for an individual who had only his own merits and his past services to support him. Barreto listened to his accusers, deprived him of his government, ordered Cardozo and another Camp-Master to govern in his stead, and sent troops from Bahia to arrest him, and a Dezembargador to sit in judgement upon him. Matters however were not carried to this extremity, for Vidal, finding that resistance could only end in ruin, made some required submission, and was allowed to retain his Government till its

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again disturbed by its indigenous enemies. The back settlements of Bahia and Ilheos were infested by the savages, and they became bold enough seriously to distress some parts of the coast. Near the southern boundary of the latter Captaincy, six considerable rivers, communicating with each other about five leagues inland, surround a track of some twelve leagues in circumference, and where they enter the sea, make the three bars of the Morro de S. Paulo, Tobatinga3, and Boypeba; the first of these

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CHAP. XXVIII. ance as a military or naval station, and the attack came from a more tremendous enemy. Vol. 1, p. 40. The Guerens infest Bahia and the adjoining provinces. Vol. 1, p. 287. 1660. The neighbouring country had been found in possession of the Tupiniquins, .. a people ill-requited for the friendly disposition which they had shown toward the Portugueze. Such of them as escaped the tyranny of their European friends were driven out by the Guerens, a branch of the Aymores, who occupied

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themselves safe in their own quarters. This shocking state of things continued many years, the few settlers who did not take shelter in the islands being compelled to convert their dwelling-houses into so many fortifications. Alexandre de Sousa thought the most advisable remedy was to erect a fort, and man it with a company of infantry drafted from the garrison of Bahia, and to be relieved every three months: the spot chosen was near the Mother Church6 of Cayr , a place which the Guerens had never yet

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their Mamaluco masters, were little less intrepid, and in activity, ferocity, and endurance, nothing inferior. The Ordinan a, or local-militia of the district, joined them when they landed; and they went through the Sertoens westward to the River S. Francisco, and northward to the boundaries of Bahia, killing and capturing the Savages, destroying all their settlements, and opening roads, so as to make a communication with that Captaincy through the interior. The prisoners were sent to the Capital

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CHAP. XXVIII. 1673. Rocha Pitta, 6, 70 72. 79 85. thoroughly, explored it in all parts, and cleared it of the savages so that they were not heard of again for more than half a century. In reward for his services he received a large grant of lands, and the lordship of a town which he was permitted to found, and which he began on the side of Bahia, under the name and patronage of S. Antonio, .. a name which has by popular consent been properly superseded by his own. But a Paulista leader was

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Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on the coast of Peniche, and the specimens and dispatches, with most of the crew, were lost: but Joam Furtado escaped: his oral representations were deemed sufficient at court, and every thing necessary for working the mines was immediately shipped for Bahia. Before the vessel arrived the discoverer died in his own country; and it appeared that no person was acquainted with his secret, nor with any clue which might lead to the spot. The expedition however was not

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Protestant state. 1678. Roque da Costa Barreto Governor. The joint Governors accomplished the term of three years, and were succeeded by Roque da Costa Barreto. The first event of his administration was the settlement of the Italian Capuchins at Bahia; the second led to a long train of consequences. The treaty with Spain, which recognized the independence of Portugal, acknowledged its right also to all the former possessions9 of the Portugueze Monarchy, Ceuta alone excepted, which, not having been

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Ravasco, to be thrown into the common prison, and not permitted to communicate with any person. Ravasco is said to have possessed the highest character, and the most distinguished abilities, being, it is affirmed, the ablest man either in Brazil or in the Mother Country. He was brother to Vieyra, who after some sufferings and many vicissitudes of fortune, had lately returned to Brazil to pass the remainder of his life at Bahia. Vieyra was now between seventy and eighty years of age, nearly blind

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CHAP. XXVIII. 1682. The Governor is superseded by the Marquez das Minas. Vol. 1, p. 358. 1670. Caetano de Sousa. Memorias dos Grandes de Portugal. p. 161. personal influence with an ungrateful Prince; they were not wanting in this need, and the representation of the state of the city came with such force and from such authority, that the Ministry which for two years had been deaf to the cries of Bahia, gave ear at length. The discontent indeed was general, and threatened fatal consequences

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commonly spoken than the Tupi, but that latterly a Jesuit was much valued at Bahia if he could speak the native language; it had fallen into disuse in proportion as the natives were consumed. Sermoens, t. 8, p. 520, 521. [page] 64

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continually arriving and departing, yet there was scarcely tonnage to carry away the sugar, more of which was raised at that time in Pernambuco than in Bahia. The ships from Peru which put back on their voyage, or which had evaded the duties in the port from whence they sailed, discharged the best part of their treasures here. They who were not served in plate were regarded as poor. The women were not satisfied with wearing silks and satins, unless they were of the richest embroidery, and they were so

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CHAP. XXX. and ungenial climate. Manoel Ferreira de Camara. Mem. Econom. da Academic. T. 1. p. 303. 308. their way to Bahia, a distance of more than thirty leagues, without entering the open sea. But on the other hand, heavy dews and almost incessant rain, render it an unhealthy and unpleasant country. There is scarcely any distinction of seasons; the trees bear flowers and fruit in all stages of its progress at the same time, for this cause, that the temperature of winter is never cold enough

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CHAP. XXX. Labat, Isles de l'Amrique, 2, 233. Cruel treatment of the slaves. Sermoens, 5, 508. habitants of Bahia as twenty to one, and certainly did not over-rate it; it was greater there than in any other part of Brazil, because the Engenhos were much more numerous, and upon a larger scale. He speaks with indignation of having seen the miserable Negroes exposed for sale in warehouses, stark naked, to be handled like beasts, purchased like beasts, worked like beasts, and he might have added

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credible this and every other abomination connected with slavery. Dress and fashions of the Portugueze. P. Gaspar Affonso Hist. Trag. Marit. 2, 335. Pyrard, 205. Fleckno. Rennefort, 287. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the reduced Indians and the slaves appeared without the slightest clothing in the streets of Bahia. In the course of a few years the Brazilians corrected this indecency among their slaves, and drest them in a sort of frock, or made them at least cover their loins. The dress

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the use of their limbs in walking. Even the men in Bahia considered it derogatory to go afoot: the declivity on which the city was built was too steep for carriages, and they were too indolent or too stately to ride. The serpentine35 therefore was used, a ham 35 The gentry of Europe, says Vieyra, (Sermoens, 8, 436,) go in litters and in coaches; those of Asia in palanquins; those of America in serpentines; and these two inventions are for going more easily and more comfortably to Hell. In

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; and here they seem particularly absurd: for on such occasions it was deemed meritorious in the husband to36 murder his wife, and there was nothing to deter 36 Frezier says that more than thirty women had been thus murdered at Bahia in one year. (531.) There can be but little doubt that where adultery was an admitted justification for murder, it would frequently be made the pretext. Such an opinion, indeed, would place every woman's life at the mercy of her husband. But when Frezier accuses the

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kingdom should be without heirs, for if we had them, there would be nothing to inherit. In this emergency, (he says elsewhere,) prudent men advise us to wear cotton, eat mandioc, and take to bows and arrows for lack of other arms, so that we shall shortly relapse into the savage state, and become Brazilians instead of Portugueze. Do. t. 2. p. 382. 1688. Death of Mathias da Cunha. Mutiny of the soldiers at Bahia. Mathias da Cunha had not held the government many months before he sickened of the

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ceding these claims 9 on the part of France, and on the part of Spain resigning all title to Nova Colonia and the Isles of S. Gabriel. Some changes took place about this time in the judicial and municipal establishments of Brazil. It was deemed indecorous that the Chamber of Bahia should only have Juizes Ordinarios of the Red Wand belonging to it, like the other Camaras, seeing that the same privileges as those of the cities of Porto and Lisbon had long since been extended to it; and that the

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CHAP. XXXI. 1696. magistrates of a higher rank. Accordingly a Juiz de Fora and an Ouvidor de Comarca were now appointed. Juizes de Fora were also introduced at Pernambuco and the Rio; and because of the distance of these cities from the seat of justice at Bahia, the Governor, with the Juiz de Fora and the Ouvidor Literario, were authorized to settle yearly the affairs of the Camara, and appoint the officers. Hitherto the Chambers appear to have chosen their own officers; three persons were

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CHAP. XXXI. 1696. Vieyra Cartas. 2. 476. Death of Vieyra. Rocha Pitta. 8. 54. 57. A. de Barros. 4. 234. 271. Vieyra describes Brazil as presenting a lively image of the mother country. .. It resembled it, he says, in preparations for war, without men or money; in full harvests of vice, without reformation; in unbounded luxury without capital; and in all other contradictions of the human mind. The genial climate of Bahia had relieved Vieyra from all maladies, except the incurable one of old age

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express orders from the Court, or in case of some unforeseen urgency wherein he would be culpable if he did not immediately repair thither. Adventurers now crouded to the scene of action from the other Captaincies, more especially from Bahia; and not mere adventurers alone, to whom having their fortunes to seek all places were alike, and who with regard to the general good might as well be cast upon one place as another, but men of substance also, who were well settled and beneficially employed for

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marks of depopulation were plainly visible thirty years afterwards. Rocha Pitta. 8. 111 112. Government attempts to prevent this emigration, but in vain. Alarmed at the rapid progress of this unforeseen evil, the Government hoped to check it at once by a decisive interposition: it therefore prohibited the passage of slaves from Bahia to the mines, and enacted that all who were apprehended in making the attempt should be confiscated, and shared between the Treasury and the Informer. Troops were

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as his successor should have arrived, to travel by land to Bahia, that he might be in time for the homeward bound fleet. Berredo. 1429 1438. 1706. Misconduct of the Capitam Mor. This conduct ought to have exempted him from all suspicion. Joam de Vellasco however was informed that a conspiracy had been planned for setting him aside and reinstating Rolim in the government: and without questioning the grounds, or even the probability of such a charge, he hastened to S. Luiz with the Ouvidor of Para

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and Forasteiros. Hitherto Maranham had been the most lawless part of Portugueze America. The restoration of order by Gomes Freyre, and the increase of its commerce, had now produced great and permanent improvement; so that from henceforth the authority of the mother country was as much obeyed there as at Bahia or at Rio de Janeiro. The country of the Mines was now becoming the most turbulent, as well as the most important district of Brazil. In the influx of people, the more desperate as well as

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port, ready for sea; he had better embark for Bahia, and take those persons with him who were marked for popular vengeance: as soon as it was known that he and the other obnoxious individuals were removed, the insurgents would be satisfied, the people would escape the horrors with which they were now menaced, order would be restored, and he had good reason to expect that the King would approve his conduct in retiring, as the most judicious which under such circumstances could have been chosen

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the 22 An Italian Capuchin was at this time in Recife, on his way to Portugal from the Mission in Angola. There were three ships preparing to sail, each of which carried some of these papers; and he declared he would not embark in either, because they had such a cargo of perjuries on board. P. Luiz Correa refers triumphantly to the event; for the Capuchin went round by Bahia and got safely to Lisbon, but not one of the three ships ever arrived. [page] 9

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CHAP. XXXII. 1710. ruling party; and the utmost vigilance was exerted to prevent any counterstatements from finding their way there. Every vessel that sailed for Bahia, or the Azores, or for any other part from whence intelligence might be conveyed to the Court, was rigourously searched, and private letters were examined with so little reserve or decency, that the manner was more offensive than the act. But while this odious authority was exercised for factious purposes, there was a total

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Fort Cabedello, they defeated Camaram at the Lagoas, and they besieged the fort of Tamandare. The garrison of Recife dispatched a vessel to Bahia to represent their perilous situation, and to intreat the Governor General that he would interfere, and send one person to take upon himself the command, and another to inquire judicially into the conduct of all parties; and that they might acquit themselves from all appearance of partiality, they said it was not their wish that Sebastian de Castro

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situation of the French. The forts were now surrendered with a facility dishonourable to those by whom they were commanded. The Governor meantime collected his troops, and entrenched himself about a league from the city, expecting a reinforcement from the Mines, whither he had sent to inform Albuquerque of the danger, and perhaps thinking it probable, that the same course of circumstances might ensue as had followed upon the capture of Bahia by Willekens and Heyne; .. but conquest had been the

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find, he entrusted it to the Jesuits, to be delivered to the Bishop; .. the Jesuits, he says, being the only ecclesiastics in that city, who had appeared worthy of his confidence. Du Guay-Trouin. 197 205. Fate of the French squadron. Elated with such complete success, this gallant seaman attempted to pursue his prosperous fortune, and sailed from the Rio with the full intention of laying Bahia in like manner under contribution. But after struggling for nearly six weeks against contrary winds, he

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1711. trance into that port would produce consequences easily to be foreseen, and greatly injurious to that commerce, which Portugal was now determined upon reserving wholly to itself. From these perplexities they were relieved by the next advices. Pedro de Vasconcellos Governor. Impost of ten per cent. Insurrection at Bahia. The disturbances in Pernambuco, and the two invasions of the Rio, occurred while D. Louren o de Almada was Governor General: he was superseded by Pedro de

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1711. Rocha Pitta. 9. 105 113. the Treasury, and the great loss of the inhabitants of Bahia and the Reconcave. To this they made answer, that there was money enough in St. Teresa's, and in the Jesuits' College, deposited there for various purposes, by persons from different parts; as much as was required might be drawn from these funds, and replaced by an assessment upon the people of the City, and the Reconcave, according to their means. The merchants and traders, they said

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1712. their own doors; where they would not have been more able, or more likely to have resisted him, than their countrymen at the Rio. Office of the Juiz do Povo abolished at Bahia. Marquez de Angeja Viceroy. 1714. Rocha Pitta. 9. 114 119. 10. 5 6. The Juiz do Povo became so arrogant in consequence of these proceedings, that he attempted to interfere in all public business, in order that the interests of his people, as he called them, might not suffer; and upon every occasion

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, not entirely to be trusted; nevertheless, if a Paulista had given proofs of his fidelity, the place of his birth was not to disqualify him. Albuquerque was directed also to give every assistance to the Archbishop of Bahia, and the Bishop of Rio de Janeiro, during the visitations which they were about to make, and to lend his authority for expelling from the Mines all Religioners and Clergy, who were residing there without just cause, or who were engaged in affairs not appertaining to their

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were addressed to the Bishop of Bahia, notwithstanding his distance from the scene. He was charged immediately to recall this man, and proceed against him as his offences deserved: in case these orders should be neglected, then, and not till then, the Governor of the Mines was authorized and enjoined to seize the criminal. Regulation respecting arms. Carta Regia, 24 July, 1711. MS. Ordem. 28 March, MS. When S. Paulo and the Mines were separated from the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, it was left to

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CHAP. XXXIII. Mines of Jacoabina discovered. 1714. New coinage. Rocha Pitta. 10. 7 13. Commutation for the fifths. Carta Regia. 16 Nov. 1714. MS. Do. 20 Oct. 1715. MS. Meantime discoveries of gold continued to be made. In the first year of the century, D. Joam de Lancastro had obtained information of some mines in the interior of Bahia, in a district called Jacoabina, and had sent a party to explore them, under a Colonel and a Carmelite, .. for the Carmelite being a Paulista, was probably