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CHAPTER XVI. RETURN TO RIO DE JANEIRO. CONGONHA AND BARBAZENA. A. D. 1818. TRAVELLERS FROM PITANGUI'. CONTRABAND GUNPOWDER. BLACKSMITHS. RODEIRO. CHAPAOM. CONGONHA, OR CAANCUNHA. SPLENDID CHURCH THERE. MIRACULOUS INTERPOSITION OF THE VIRGIN. LEPERS. SUA'-SUI'. BRAZILIAN ADMIRATION OF THE TASTE AND MANNERS OF FOREIGNERS. REFLECTIONS ON THE FORM OF THE COUNTRY. ST. JOZE. BARBAZENA. REGISTRO VELHO. BORDO DO CAMPO. JURUOCCA. THE RIO GRANDE'. MANTIQUEIRA. PEDRO ALVES. SINGULAR SNAKES. ST. VINCENTE

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St. Francisco. Yet the above Vessels arrived only from Prenambuco, Alagoas, and Parahiba do Norte. Some intercourse for Ship Timber has been opened by Store-Ships between Seara and Rio de Janeiro, but none with Merchant Vessels. Besides the Vessels included in Table I. three others have arrived in Rio, from unknown Ports, viz.: 1 Launch in 24 Days from Catendiba loaded with Salt. 1 sumacha Curaripe, Rice, Farinha, Coffee. 1 Launch 1 Day Tatuna, Fish and Farinha. Some of the above Vessels cleared

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, which overlooked the forest, in order that we might discover any trace of them, by their firing or otherwise. At this period only two boats, and about a dozen canoas, plied upon the water for hire. St. Domingos and Praia Grand , on the opposite side, were small pleasant villages, consisting of a few scattered houses, embosomed in woods. All round the bay of Rio de Janeiro appeared one interminable forest, every hill was clothed with lofty trees, and every valley filled with fire-wood; little

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destined to the market of Rio de Janeiro. It was the first of the kind we had met, because, beyond the Parah ba, they pursue to the city the route of Uv and Maranb ya. Close to the water's edge stood one good house, a small church, and a poor venda. I crossed by the canoa, which had attended the oxen over, and at the Register, on the other side, though obliged to wait until the officers were at liberty, was received with civility. They were employed in weighing gold dust, which they received

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perceive, above the lofty waves, the tops of the masts of the Janus. After long and severe exertions, we reached the ship, where they were beginning to be uneasy on our account. The wind being so faint, we indeed proceeded extremely slowly; but anchored however, when evening came, in the very contracted entrance to the great bay of Rio de Janeiro, which was formerly called Ganabara by the aboriginal tribes who dwelt round it. This entrance is striking, and extremely picturesque. On both sides rise

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CHAPTER IV. RIO DE JANEIRO. A. D. 1808. RANKS. EMPLOYMENT. MANNERS. CHARACTER. VICEREYS. THE QUEEN. REGENT. ROYAL FAMILY. PALACE. EQUIPAGE. CONDE' DE LINHARES. COURTIERS. ECCLESIASTICS. LAWYERS. MERCHANTS. SHOPKEEPERS. ARTIZANS. PORTERS. ITINERANT DEALERS. BEGGARS. WOMEN. THEIR DRESS. PERSONS. EMPLOYMENTS. CHILDREN. DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS. FURNITURE. VISITS. DINNER PARTY. EVENING. VISIT AT ILHA DOS FRADRES. EDUCATION. IGNORANCE. FILTH. VICES. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. PREVIOUS to the arrival

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CHAPTER VIII. RIO DE JANEIRO. A. D. 1813. IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY. BUILDINGS. POPULATION. COURT. CONDUCT AND POPULARITY OF THE REGENT. THEATRE. ECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS. THEIR INFLUENCE UPON MANNERS. ARMY, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS. INTERNAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. FOREIGN RELATIONS. MARRIAGE OF A PRINCESS. COMMERCIAL IMPROVEMENTS. DOMESTIC COMFORTS. THE MIDDLE HARBOUR. HOSPITAL DOS ENCHADOS. ROCKS AND ISLANDS. PARTY OF PLEASURE. LAZARETTO. GAMBO'A. BRITISH BURIAL-GROUND. DESICCATION. PONTE CAJU'

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SPEEDILY MAY BE PUT TO PRESS, (IF A SMALL EDITION SHOULD APPEAR TO BE ACCEPTABLE) A Grammar and Dictionary of THE TUPI LANGUAGE. The Work will be comprised in One thin Quarto Volume, and contain the Grammar of Anchieta, and the Dictionary of Figueira, with some Terms and Phrases, and Lists of proper Names of Places, Rivers, Plants, Fruits, Animals and Men, collected by THE AUTHOR OF NOTES ON RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL. A Knowledge of the Tupi Tongue seems calculated to throw some light upon the

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jerked Beef; all these articles are sent to Rio de Janeiro, only that Bahia shares with it the last mentioned. The vessels sailing from Rio Grand , in 1808, amounted to one hundred and fifty, [page] 18

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proportion of provisions. To this the planters were naturally averse, because cotton always paid the cultivator better than mandioca and pulse, and the regulation had been permitted to fall into disuse. The merchants, too, found a profit in importing edible articles from other ports, where they naturally became dearer, from the rapidly increasing population of Rio de Janeiro, which had now become the surest and best market along the coast. There also the state of things had been affected by the

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river between Rio de Janeiro and Bahia: at this time, the full stream rolled proudly and majestically to the sea; its vast mass of water flowed in a bed which appeared to us to be twice as wide as the Rhine, in its broadest part. In a few days however it * A new and nondescript species of small frog, hyla luteola, of a pale yellowish colour, with a darker stripe through the eye. The tronco is a military punishment. It consists of a long board, placed upright on its edge, in which are cut a row

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a little cotton, c. It sometimes exports 54,500 alquieras of flour in a year, which, reckoning the alquiera at the moderate rate of five patacks or florins, makes 272,500 florins. This trade brings hither a considerable number of vessels from Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Capitania, and the other ports on the east coast: thirty or forty small vessels are sometimes lying here at once; and there are frequent opportunities to go, or send letters by the casqueiro to Rio. The vessels of

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Coasting Trade to the North of Rio de Janeiro. INWARDS. OUTWARDS. Qr. Lan. Sm Br. Sh. Ca. Tonage. Men. Cargoes. Lan Sm. Br. Sh. Lad. Bal. Cargoes. 1 15 3 0 0 0 1050 84 Sugar, Honey, Rum, Milho. 14 6 1 0 5 16 Iron, Wine, Rosca, Carne, Salt, 2 14 2 1 0 0 1050 90 Rice, Plank. 22 7 0 0 11 18 Goods, Slaves, Produce, 3 21 9 0 0 0 1950 156 Cotton. 38 2 1 0 9 32 Tallow, Flour, Bacon, Cheese. 4 40 16 3 0 0 4100 355 47 16 0 0 22 41 Tobacco, Farinha, Oil. 5 34 10 1 0 0 2850 260 32 12 1 0 16 28 Osiers

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however affirm that the violent south winds greatly purify the atmosphere. The inhabitants of this place are principally supported by the exportation of farinha and sugar. This country, as well as that about Rio de Janeiro, was formerly inhabited by the powerful tribes of the Tupinambas and Tamoyos, which in Lery's time were in alliance with the French against the Portuguese. Salema attacked them in 1572, at Cape Frio, where they sustained a signal defeat, upon which they retired into the

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evident satisfaction, I had plenty to eat. He had learned that the vessel was bound to London, and showed that the little he could understand about England had made a deep impression upon his imagination; for though he could never be persuaded to speak well of the people who took him, and always reminded us that they beat him very much, he earnestly and repeatedly solicited me to find for him a place on board a ship for London. That in which he had first sailed put into Rio de Janeiro, and left him

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objects, which the most fertile imagination can conceive. Directly opposite, at two miles distance Westward, is the fort of the celebrated Villegagnon, the theatre of glorious exploits. Above this fort, still farther Westward, is beheld the city of St.Sebastian, commonly, though improperly, called Rio de Janeiro, filling the low grounds at the foot of a projecting mountain, and running along the beach to other elevations. Churches and monasteries, forts and country-houses, glittering in

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cannot be mistaken; it is certainly Rio de Janeiro, but the enemy's vessels carry Dutch colours, and I know of no fact in the history of the place, to which this circumstance can possibly apply. I suspect that, by a little tissue of falsehood and flattery, to which the Caraocas are by no means averse, they intended to appropriate to themselves the honours of Bahia. The last division of the dome represents the burning of a large Dutch vessel; boats are towing her off from the rest of the shipping

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water, that even these are sometimes obliged to wait a month before they can venture to pass it. The best landmark is the Fradre, a remarkably high, rough, naked mountain. The whole adjacent territory is said to have been divided between the Jesuits, the Benedictines, and the Bishop of Rio de Janeiro. An observation made throughout the whole of this journey, bears another testimony to the good and useful conduct of the Jesuits in Brazil. When the aboriginal inhabitants were driven by the oppressive

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This is the rate at which Gold is delivered into the Treasury at Rio de Janeiro, there it is coined and re-issued, either in pieces of 6,400 Reis each, or 4,000 Reis each; the former yielding to the Treasury, at the exchange already quoted, a fraction more than seventy-five shillings and nine-pence three farthings, and the latter a trifle less than eighty-four shillings and five-pence half-penny. It may be proper to add, for the sake of those who may wish to verify these calculations, that

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half civilized hordes. Vigodet, indeed, held for the King of Spain the important post of Monte Video, which, in the year 1812, was besieged by those forces, united with troops from Buenos Ayres. The Spanish Governor retaliated by capturing the vessels which belonged to the latter place, and carried in several which navigated between Rio de Janeiro and the Plata. It was usual, during the prevalence of the Colonial system, for such vessels to have two husbands, one in Brazil, the other in the

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extend from Bom Successo, in the longitude of Cape Frio on the East, as far as Villa Bella in the West, a lineal distance of nine hundred miles. The Western road is chiefly occupied with transporting produce from the Northern part of St. Paul's, and the intermediate countries; but Cattle, Mules, and Sheep, have been occasionally brought along it, from Rio Grand , from distances not less than six, seven, and eight hundred miles. Such is the vast field presented, by the Port of Rio de Janeiro to

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Coasting Trade to the North of Rio de Janeiro. INWARDS. OUTWARDS. Qr. Lan Sm Br. Sh. Ca. Tonage. Men. Cargoes. Lan Sm Br. Sh. Lad. Bal. Cargoes. 1 5 2 0 0 0 450 28 Milho, Farinha. 5 7 0 0 2 10 Goods, Produce, Bacon, Roscas, 2 7 3 0 0 0 650 52 Rice, Pulse, Cotton-wick. 13 0 0 0 9 4 Produce, Whale Oil, Carne, Wine, 3 7 3 0 0 0 650 52 Sugar, Rum, Fustic, Plank. 18 4 0 0 4 18 Tobacco, Farinha, Wheat. 4 15 2 0 0 0 900 92 Fuel, Cotton-cloth, Redas. 10 3 0 0 5 8 5 11 2 0 0 0 750 71 Large Bowls, Boxes

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we saw on the surface of the sea, shoals of beautiful fish, whose splendid red colour afforded us a singular spectacle. Sea-weed (fucus), and some mollusc which we caught, amused us till the approach of night and the heavy dew, usual in this zone, forced us to leave the deck for the cabin. But just as we were about to retire to rest, a sound of firing in the distance summoned us again upon deck. In the back-ground of the bay, where a number of large ships led us to presume the city of Rio de

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came into the inner bay of Rio de Janeiro. However agreeable a more protracted stay in the capital might have proved, it was not consistent with my plan to remain there long, as the riches of nature are only to be found in fields and forests. Through the aid of government, whose wishes were carried into effect in the most obliging manner by the Count da Barca, I was enabled to make the preparations for my departure without any loss of time. My passports and letters of recommendation to the several

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to us a good convenient house at Barra de Juc at the mouth of the little river Juc , about four leagues from the town. This house belonged to Colonel Falcao, commander of the regiment of militia of this district, and also one of the greatest planters in this part of the country. Here I again found news from Europe, for to this town, but no farther, a post comes by land from Rio de Janeiro. While we were employed in perusing the agreeable and long-expected accounts from home, a crowd of people of