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Carvalho de Aguiar; and the conquest seems now to have been thought compleat, for it was made a Captaincy, and the town of N. Senhora da Victoria de Moxa founded, to be the seat of Government. In ecclesiastical concerns the new Captaincy was made subordinate to Pernambuco, in civil affairs to Maranham, while for judicial matters it was under the jurisdiction of Bahia. The Lord of Pancas held the government of Maranham during the long term of eleven years, and was then succeeded by Bernardo Pereira de

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produce, the greater was the contraband trade: so the home Government once more resolved upon collecting its fifths, and issued orders accordingly for erecting smelting and receiving houses in every district. Eugenio Freire de Andrade, who held the office of Provedor of the Mint at Bahia, was sent to superintend the new establishment. The Count convoked the principal Miners, and other powerful men of the land, and they signified their assent to the proposed alteration, and subscribed their names

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putting an end to the continual acts of injustice, and consequent contention, which arose from this practice. A power of deciding summarily in such cases was requisite; because, while suits were pending at Bahia, or, perhaps, at Lisbon, the Mines remained unworked, and the revenue suffered. The Guardas Menores, therefore, were empowered to allot the water, according to the means of the miners; and an appeal lay from them to the Superintendant of the Comarca. No person might appropriate the waters

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crying, that Rodrigo Cesar sent a force against them from S. Paulo. The well-disposed part of the inhabitants gladly joined it; and the ruffians, after attempting vainly to defend themselves in their strong holds, were hunted down. Louren o was killed in the woods, like a wild beast; Joam was taken prisoner, and beheaded at Bahia. Among other acts of tyranny, these Lemes had ordered the Forasteiros to leave Cuyaba. Slight occasion indeed would have revived the old feud, now that the danger from

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centre of his column, where it killed and wounded so many men, that a general panic ensued and the intention was abandoned; and the Spaniards, not chusing to venture upon any more perilous service, contented themselves with cannonading and bombarding the town. Walpole Papers. MSS. Silvestre Ferreira. 72 90. 1736. The siege converted into a blockade. Early in the new year succours arrived successively from the Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco, more than a thousand men. Upon the arrival of the first

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CHAP. XXXVII. 1738. ty-four, in its passage from Angola to Bahia, hove in sight; and the Captain, D. Miguel Henriquez, having learnt the state of affairs, took upon himself the direction, and landed part of his men with the Pernambucan troops. Five and twenty French-men were found on shore, who without any show of resistance came to meet the Portugueze, and said they had been sent there by the French East Indian Company, to take possession of the Island. The Portugueze Commander did not at

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extensive region behind the Captaincies of Bahia and Piauhy, which now forms the Captaincy General of Goyaz; and from Cuyaba the Portugueze continued to advance, on the one side in a direction which brought them nearer to the Chiquito and Moxo Missions; on the other they came upon the great western branch of the Tocantins and its tributary streams; and they secured for Portugal, a country containing not less than two hundred thousand square miles, which is now the Captaincy of Mato Grosso. Avizo. 5

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the Governor of Santa Cruz, who forbade him to advance into the country, he returned without any satisfactory account even of what he had explored. That Reduction had also been visited by a party of runaways from Bahia, with a Priest in company, who frankly avowed that they had fled their own country in consequence of having committed certain acts, which rendered it impossible for them to continue in it with safety, and they requested permission to take refuge in Peru; but this was refused, and

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80,000 l.) in a fleet of thirty canoes. They had reached the Bahia de Ingaiba, a large bay formed where the Cuyaba joins the Paraguay; and there, as the men were carelessly taking their meal, and suffering the boats to glide with the stream, they were awakened from their security by the dreadful huru of the combined Indians. The Portugueze sold their lives dearly, and it is believed that more than four hundred of the natives perished in the action; but only seventeen of the Portugueze escaped

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CHAP. XXXVIII. morrow to transact the exchange: they were incautious enough to go without arms, and they who remained in the boats saw the savages fall upon them: immediately they fired their cannon, and put the murderers to flight; but not before fifty of their comrades had been butchered. Here ended the vain hope of peace. But about this time roads were opened to Bahia and to the Rio; and owing to these communications, and to the intercourse which was soon established with Para, the route of

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found them blameless in that point, and in all others highly useful and meritorious. Eighty of the most respectable persons in Bahia subscribed this attestation; and among them was a brother of the Cardinal Patriarch. The Archbishop at the same time informed the Court, that he had not obeyed the order to suspend the Jesuits from their functions; because a residence of nineteen years upon his See had enabled him to know their real character, and appreciate the good which they performed, and he could

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CHAP. XL. 1760. the Dean till his successor should arrive. No pension whatever was allowed him; and this venerable man, at the age of fourscore, was left for the remainder of his days dependant upon charity. The office of Reformer devolved upon the Dean; and he was proceeding in it with sufficient severity when the Marquez de Lavradio, who came out as Viceroy, brought with him instructions for the expulsion, and one hundred and sixty-eight of this persecuted Order were deported from Bahia to

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death, and the disgrace of Pombal; when, after a confinement of eighteen years, they were set at liberty. The others, as they arrived in the Tagus, were transferred to other ships, not being permitted to set foot on shore, nor to communicate with friend 11 The author of the Aneddoti carries the Jesuits from S. Paulo to Bahia, and embarks them there for the Rio! This is not the only instance in which he betrays his ignorance of the topography of Brazil. [page] 54

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, and their successors the Pirates, and when those common enemies of all mankind had been exterminated, then on account of the Barbary cruizers. Peace was now made with Morocco, when there was no longer an old point of honour to impede it, and Oeyras immediately declared, that as soon as the fleets from Bahia and the Rio should have returned, the trade with those ports might be carried on by single ships. Rocha Pitta. 6. 53. Mr. Hay's dispatch. 21 Sept. 1765. MS. Ratton. p. 96. Inhabitants of

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the facilities for extracting gold without paying the duties increased in the same proportion. The temptation to evade the impost was so strong, that severe laws and strict inspection were not suffi 22 In the outward bound fleet of the same year, there were thirty large ships for the Rio, and ten for Maranham. Of the numbers for Bahia and Pernambuco I have no account; for the former port they would be nearly, or quite as numerous, as for the Rio; for the latter, more numerous than for Maranham

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infested the road to Bahia. And this occurrence, natural as it was, was imputed to the machinations of the Jesuits! Patriota. 3. 4. 56. Peace with the Goaitacazes. Vol. 2. p. 666. The Captaincy of Minas Geraes was still from time to time infested on its eastern frontier by the unsubdued tribes, who on that side kept possession of the Sertam. The Goaitacazes, who had long disappeared after the massacre which in mistaken vengeance was made among them, had recovered numbers, strength, and audacity

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they failed in showing a just cause why they should be admitted, they were forthwith to be sent out of the district as suspicious persons, if they were not found deserving of severer punishment. It was known that traders and contrabandists introduced themselves into the Arrayaes; sometimes with the pretext of passing through; sometimes under pretence of collecting debts, either for themselves or others; sometimes as travelling slave-dealers, like those who frequented Bahia and the Rio once or

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of goods from merchants settled at the Rio, Bahia, or any other of the sea ports; and private individuals, if they pleased, might do the same. This would put a stop to the trading Commissaries and Pedlars, who now wandered over the district, but who were from this time forward to be arrested, and their goods confiscated, a third part being given as a reward to the informer. 38. 37. No person of any state, quality, or condition, might enter the Forbidden District, without previously transmitting

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CHAP XLII 1771 known establishment, or ostensible means of life, were consequently to be suspected of living by some secret practices, and therefore to be expelled. Should they return, they were to be imprisoned for six months at the Rio or Bahia, at their own cost, and pay a reward of fifty oitavas to the persons who informed against them. For the second offence, the fine was to be doubled, and the offender transported to Angola for ten years. 40. 41. If the Administrators had well-grounded

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made, it was found in the vicinity of Bahia; and it had previously been known that it existed in Para. The Governor of S. Catharina was instructed to encourage the cultivation of this valuable article. The Marquez likewise sent specimens to the Court of a good silk, produced by a native caterpillar, which fed upon the leaves of the tataiba. His views appear to have been scientific and liberal: but even if they had been more steadily encouraged by the Government, the Brazilians were not ripe for

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, whose cone is thrice the size of the European one, the colour of the silk a, deep yellow; it feeds upon the pinheira, or atta, which is an indigenous tree, and upon the leaves of the orange. Cazal. 2. 260. 262. 269. Difficult communication with the south by sea. The navigation of this coast is so difficult from north to south, both wind and current setting in from the south, that it is easier for Para and Maranham to communicate with Lisbon, than with the Rio or Bahia, by sea: and for that

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of Piauhy. Rocha Pitta. 6. 76. 77. City of Oeyras. In 1724, six years after Piauhy was made a Captaincy, and orders had been given for founding there the town of Mocha, under the patronage of N. Senhora da Victoria, there were about four hundred extensive Fazendas in this province, from which Bahia received much, Minas Geraes most, of their supply of cattle. Mocha was made a city in 1762, by King Joz , and its original native name changed for that of Oeyras, in compliment to the great Minister

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sufficed for managing an estate of this extent. Part of their duty is to destroy the wild cattle and horses, that they may not decoy away the tame, or render them unmanageable. If the owner has no slaves, Mulattos, Mamalucos, and free Blacks, who abound in the Sertoens of Seara, Pernambuco, and Bahia, and particularly about the Rio S. Francisco in the higher part of its course, are eager to obtain employment in these farms. These men, who hate any other labour, are passionately fond of this way of

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flourishing parts of Brazil: it contains more ports than any other Captaincy, and Recife was only inferior in commercial importance to Bahia and the Rio. That city, which has not unaptly been called the Tripoli 22 In the Serra do Teyxeira, there are some inscriptions in red characters, which none of the persons in the neighbouring country can decypher, but which they suppose to be Dutch. If they are merely painted upon the rocks, it is not likely that they should be of older date, .. scarcely

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upon the Lagoas, had increased to a large town, which was the capital of a flourishing Comarca. In the early part of the eighteenth century, the average yearly exportation of tobacco from this district was two thousand five hundred rolls, of eight arrobas each, .. almost two hundred weight; and this of such quality, as to bear a price fifty per cent. higher than the tobacco of Bahia. Latterly its culture had given place to that of the sugar cane. Towns and villages were rapidly increasing in this

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, because of the manner of its death. Do. Institu am. 29 30. Cazal. 2. 165. River S. Francisco. Cazal. 1. 157. Pernambuco touches upon Paraiba, Seara, and Piauhy to the north, and upon Goyaz to the west: from Seregipe and Bahia it is divided by the Rio S. Francisco, and by one of its larger confluents, the Carynhenha, from Minas Geraes. The S. Francisco is the greatest river that enters the sea between the Orellana and the Plata. Its sources are in the heart of Minas Geraes; in the Serra da Canastra

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CHAP. XLIV. Cazal. 2. 189. Do. 1. 159. Do. 2. 186. Town of O Penedo. Cazal. 2. 182. above one thousand families. The S. Francisco at this point is a mile broad, and the passage there is much frequented, being in the line from Piauhy and the whole intermediate Sertam, to Bahia and the Mines. Thus far barks are used upon the river, and ajojos, which are two or more canoes fastened together and connected by a platform. From Vargem Redonda there is a long portage of twenty leagues, to Canind ; the

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CHAP. XLIV. Province of Seregipe d'El Rey. Cazal. 2. 141. Cazal. 2. 152. City of Seregipe. Cazal. 2. 147. Cazal. 2. 148. The subordinate province of Seregipe d'El Rey, lying between Pernambuco and Bahia, with twenty-six leagues of coast, and extending about forty leagues into the interior, has no natural advantage for commerce, like the adjoining Captaincies, and was therefore far behind them in advancement; yet it had not been stationary during the general progression. At the close of the

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continued at Bahia: and at the time of the Removal, the towns and settlements along the coast, for twenty leagues to the south of the town of Ilheos, were almost depopulated. The tribes, who had attained this ascendancy over the Brazilians were the Patachos, or Cotochos, and the Mongoyos. Many hordes of the latter were reduced in consequence of the expedition down the Rio Pardo, in 1806; their fear of the Botucudos (the terrible Aymores) inducing them to take shelter in civilization; .. as the Muras of

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reject, .. so completely do they now understand the superiority of the Portugueze: the pride, which rendered them intractable when they were the more numerous and formidable race, has ceased to influence them, and they soon become useful members of the community. The Sertoens of Pernambuco and Bahia were supplied with pottery from the towns and villages of the Christian Indians; and in the Indian town of Oliven a, in the district of Ilheos, a large and populous place, the people were almost all

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CHAP. XLIV. Cazal. 1. 36. Lindley. 213 220. Villa Verde. Cazal. 2. 81. Caravellas. Cazal. 2. 83. 77. Do. 83. Lindley. 229. a steep eminence, and the forest behind all. The greater part of the inhabitants are engaged in the garoupa fishery,.. a fish about two palms long, very thick in proportion to its length, red, and without scales; the flesh is white, and esteemed a delicacy when fresh: it is salted for the Bahia market. They are caught off the Abrolhos; and about fifty decked launches were

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thing bore the marks of decay: agriculture was neglected; and if a dwelling in the country needed repairs, it was suffered to fall to ruin. Some little exportation was still made of sugar, rum, coffee, maize, kidney-beans, rice, and cotton; it was but little; and their small vessels crept along the adjacent coasts of Bahia and the Rio, seldom venturing to Pernambuco on the one hand, or to Rio Grande do Sul on the other. But the women were not indolent; most of them were employed in spinning cotton

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. The Reconcave of the Rio, though less extensive than that of Bahia, was not less populous in proportion, and had the same advantage of numerous streams; some navigable for three or four miles only, others for as many leagues; the Macacu 29, which 29 Upon this river, and in the most fertile part of the country, a certain Andre da Costa settled some poor families, in theyear 1718, upon an estate of two square leagues, which he devised to them in perpetuity, making it unalienable, and requiring

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the Captaincy. It is said, that swelled necks are not uncommon among the male Blacks: .. if the observation be accurate, the fact is remarkable; because enlargements of the throat, in those countries where they are most common, are more incident to women than to men. Captaincy General of Goyaz. The Captaincy-General of Goyaz, which is the central province of Brazil, and one of the largest, touches upon Para and Maranham, to the north; upon Piauhy, Seara, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Minas Geraes, to

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trade with Para failed, that with Bahia and the Rio was carried on by enterprizing men, upon borrowed capital, for which they paid from ten to twenty per cent. interest at Villa Bella. Large profits are required to cover this drawback, and the expenses of the journey (a distance of six hundred leagues, which occupied five months): they dealt therefore chiefly in articles of luxury and high price, upon which they could lay on forty or fifty per cent. In this manner they amassed fortunes, to the

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feuds. Many hundred persons were employed in making the waxen missiles for this season. Bahia de Santos. Road to S. Paulo. Cazal. 1. 217. Mawe. 62 63. Journal. MS. Santos is the port of S. Paulo. The bay of Santos is formed by the islands of S. Amaro and S. Vicente, and has three openings; that of Bertioga, on the north, where the whalers have an establishment; the Barra de S. Vicente, on the south; and between them, the Barra Larga, or Barra de Santos, which is the main entrance. The current

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other instrument than the hands; and these same women excel in making lace, and in embroidery. Both sexes were proud of their European extraction; but even the higher class of women were barefoot. The ports on this side had declined greatly, in consequence of the restriction, which prohibited them from sending their produce to any other port than Santos. Cananea. Southward of Bahia de Santos, is the little town of Cananea, pleasantly situated in an island close to the main. One of the stone

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resembling these Embira matches, .. ropes made of a certain plant, which burnt like a fuse, and being whirled through the air, blazed out like torches. They use fire arrows headed with the same thing. El Inca Garcilaso, l. 3, c. 36. 94. Fish at Bahia, p. 322.] In 1584, a remarkable fish was left on the shore of Bahia; it was 37 palms in length, and so large, that a man standing by its side, could not see over it. It had only one eye, in the middle of the forehead; the skin was tough .. like that of bacon

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CHAP. XXI. 1645. July 27. and rescued. Seventy soldiers were ordered to chastise the insurgents, entrapped into an ambush, and all cut off. The patriots then, under Valentim de Rocha Pita, laid siege to the fortress, and sent to Bahia to intreat succours. The Governor General, who no longer thought it necessary to dissemble, dispatched a small force under Nicolao Aranha. They marched from Rio Real to the S. Francisco in fourteen days, which, when the distance and the season were considered

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better arms than pointed sticks and clubs. These are blessings from heaven, and if we could do this without powder and ball, what may we not perform now when we are strengthened with good troops, and provided with sufficient arms and ammunition? Had it not been for respect to the Colonels sent from Bahia, and to the King of Portugal, I had ere this been master of Recife. But if matters are not brought to that happy issue, I will act desperately, and leave neither sugar-works, nor cattle, nor negroes

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recurring three days in succession, covered the shores of Bahia with innumerable small fish, which the people gladly collected, being more attentive to their appetites than to the prodigy, not reflecting that when the elementary bodies go out of their natural order, human bodies suffer, alterations ensue in health, and ruin not only in material fabrics, but in empires. Do. 21. The small pox, he says, is a disease more natural to man than any other, for the physicians deduce its cause from the womb

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, 404; reaches the Presidio das Tartarugas, 405; the island of Peria, 406; his irresolution, 408; removal to Guaxenduba, 411; his presumption, ib.; duped by his prisoners, 414; the French defeated, 418; treaty, 420; takes Fort Louis, 426; dies, 430. Albuquerque, Jeronymo Fragoso de, appointed to the Captaincy of Para, i. 432. Albuquerque, Mathias, checks an insurrection of the Tupinambas, i. 429; appointed Governor of Bahia, 447; sent out from Madrid to defend Pernambuco, 463; loses Olinda and

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, 525; reoccupies Porto Calvo, ib.; abandons Porto Calvo, 530; pursued by Nassau to the San Francisco, 533; abandons Seregipe, 541; retreats to Bahia, 542; marches to St. Salvador, 549; Pedro da Sylva resigns the command to him, 553; exchange of prisoners, 554; measures for defence, 556; the siege raised, 559. Bahia de todos os Santos, why so named, i. 29; first settler, 30; its fine harbour, 41; why called the Reconcave, 42; expulsion of the colonists, 43; tea and coffee indigenous in, 320; its

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Bardza, F. Cypriano, his labours among the Moxos, iii. 198; forms the first Reduction, 199; explores a way across the mountains to Peru, 205; he goes among the Baures, 206; his martyrdom, 208. Barbalho, lands with a force north of the Potengi, i. 572; retreats and returns to Bahia, 573. Barbalho Bezerra, Agostinho, compelled to accept the appointment of Governor by the insurgents of the Rio de Janeiro, ii. 552; his search for the mines discovered by Azevedo, iii. 46. Barbote, or mouth-piece of

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Cayenne, Surinam, and Berbice, iii. 13. Brink, defeated, in the second battle of Guararapes, ii. 229. Brigniel, F. Joseph, his exertions in civilizing the savages of Paraguay, iii. 440. Brito de Castro, Antonio, kills the Alcaide Mor of Bahia, ii. 582. Brito, Luis de, appointed Governor of Brazil, i. 310. Broca, insect, a plague in Brazil, i. 319. Brouwer, Henrik, sent against Chili, ii. 24; Cape Horn for the first time passed, 25; he dies, and the expedition fails, ib. Bucarelli, appointed

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das Tabocas, 100. Caribs, their cannibalism, i. 637. Carijos, tribe of, on the Rio Grande, their character, iii. 565; their jugglers, 566. Carios, tribe of, i. 65; subdued by Yrala, 161. Caripatenas, tribe of, on the Orellana, expedition against, iii. 7; its success, 10. Carlos III. of Spain, annuls the Treaty of Limits, iii. 503. Carmelites introduced into Brazil, i. 316; established at Bahia, ii. 553; their disputes with the Jesuits, iii. 366. Carmo, Rio do, discovery of, iii. 55. Carnauba, a

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, Governor of Paraguay, his measures against the Portugueze, ii. 573. Cordoba, Jesuit college founded at, ii. 255; appeal of Cardenas to the Bishop of, 426; seizure of the Spanish Jesuits in the college at, iii. 609. Cordovil, Capitam Mor of Para, ii. 31. Correa de Sa e Benavides, Salvador, commands the homeward bound fleet from Bahia, ii. 119; proceeds to Recife, 132; sails for Europe, ib.; sent to recover Angola, 207; lands and completely succeeds, 209, 211; appointed Governor of the Southern

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capitation in Minas Geraes, iii. 265 note; his view of the probable consequences of the removal of the Portugueze Court to Brazil, 296, note. Da Cunha, Mathias, Governor General of Brazil, iii. 17; his death, 19. Da Cunha, Paulo, sent to ravage the Dutch possessions in Pernambuco, i. 575; recalled, ii. 5; takes Serinhaem, 120; compels two Jews to profess Christianity, 121; Nazareth delivered up to him by Hoogstraten, 131; his fruitless mission to Bahia, 201. Dampier, his description of a cotton tree

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. Eclipse, mode employed by Gumilla to explain that phenomenon to the savages, i. 647. Ega, town of, on the Tef , iii. 704. El Dorado, expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro in search of, i. 78; lure of, diverts English adventurers from Brazil, 371; origin of the fable, 372; expedition from Brazil in search of, 375. Embira, plant, its uses in Brazil, i. 321. Emboabas, Cazal's explanation of the word, iii. 885. Emerald mines, remains of, at Bahia, i. 323. Encabellados, Indians, met with on Orellana's voyage

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. Fernandes Vieira, Joam, rise of, ii. 65; his liberality, 66; he is accused before the Council, 67; prepares his countrymen for insurrection, 68; opens his project to Vidal, 69; his representations to the Governor-General, 71; declares his intentions, 74; appointed General and Governor during the insurrection, 75; some of the Portugueze seek to deter him, ib.; and to make Cardozo return to Bahia, 76; the Governor promises to assist him, 79; his preparations, 80; plans a massacre of the leading men