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as the song was concluded, they ran back in disorder as if in flight; first the women with their daughters, and then the men with their sons. After this they placed themselves in the same order as before, and the scene was repeated. A negro who had lived a long time among the * It is remarkable that the melodies which Lery noted above 200 years ago among the Indians, in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, very much resemble those observed by us. (See Lery, Hist. Nav. in Brazil, Geneva, 1594

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NOTE 4. View of the principal articles exported from Rio de Janeiro in the year 1917. ARTICLE. QUANITY. CURRENT PRICE. TORAL VALUE OF THE ARTICLE. EXPORT DUTY. AMOUNT OF THE DUTY. Sugar. 680,000 arrobas* (in17,000 chests). Meanprice between fine white and Muscivade, 200 rees per arroba. 1,360,000,000 rees. 160 rees on every chest, and 2 per cent. on the current value. 29,920,000 rees. Coffee. 298,999 arrobas. 2400 rees per arroba. 687,597,000,000 rees. 80 rees per arroba, and 2 per cent. on

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Rio de Janeiro, on the 18th July, after an absence from it of six months to a day. The surrounding scenery appeared as beautiful as when I first saw it. [page] 17

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TRAVELS IN SOUTH AMERICA. CHAPTER I. Departure from England Madeira Experiment on the Line Arrival at Rio de Janeiro The Bay and its Defences The City and Public Buildings. HIS Majesty's ship SUPERB, with a small squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, Bart., having been got ready for sea, and the Right Honourable Edward Thornton, Minister at the court of Rio de Janeiro, of whose suite I formed a part, taking his passage on board, we embarked at Plymouth on the 9th September

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James Watson, Esq., both of Rio de Janeiro; also that of G. F. Dickson, Esq., late of Buenos Ayres, but now residing in Liverpool; of John Watson, Esq. of Buenos Ayres; and of J. Lawson, Esq., of St. Jago de Chile. The Engravings are executed by Finden, from drawings made by Mr. W. Daniel, a gentleman well known to all lovers of the fine arts. Many of the sketches were executed by Captain the Hon. William Waldegrave, for whose kindness the Author is happy to make this public acknowledgment

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No. 2. On examining the water of Botafogo Bay, the specific gravity, at 80 of Fahrenheit, was 1.020 The correction for the temperature of 60 .0022 Specific gravity 1.0222 I used a delicate glass bulb, holding fifty grains of distilled water. No. 3. An ACCOUNT of the Number of SLAVES imported into Rio de Janeiro in the Year 1823. In fifty-two vessels 20, 610 landed. Died at sea 1, 437 22, 047 shipped. In 1824, to the 6th March. In seventeen vessels 5, 626 landed. Died at sea 840 6, 466 shipped

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Colonia del Sacramento, opposite to Buenos Ayres, afford sufficient proof of this. Soon after the revolution commenced in the Spanish provinces, an opportunity was presented to the court of Rio de Janeiro, by Artigas and other chieftains, under pretext of the disorders occasioned by them, and the inroads said to have been made into the Portuguese frontier province of Rio Grande, to march an army and take possession of the fortress of Montevideo, and the whole of the northern bank of the Rio de la

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plan. The tenths are taken on the article being exposed for sale or exportation, and the government pays the beneficed clergy according to their respective cures. None of them seemed to receive less than about 200l. per annum. The conventual clergy is supported by old grants of land; and several of the orders, established in Rio de Janeiro, more particularly the Benedictines, are reputed rich. The finances of Brazil are not by any means accurately known; for some time they were only collected

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well aware of the feelings which exist upon this subject in Buenos Ayres. An agent has always resided in Rio de Janeiro, and latterly some diplomatic establishment has been maintained by the Brazilians in Buenos Ayres. In July, 1821, the court of Rio de Janeiro thought proper to recognize the state of Buenos Ayres; but as at the same period the incorporation of Montevideo and the Banda Oriental with the Brazil empire took place, the act was considered as emanating rather from a desire to stifle

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still the field is wide, and much no doubt remains to fee accomplished. The neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro is considered by botanists to present the greatest variety of plants; and those naturalists who are anxious to leave the coast, where from evident causes the tropical vegetation extends farther south than in the interior, are in the end much disappointed. It was gratifying when in company with a botanist, to hear him exclaim at every step, this is a new variety, or a new plant. The

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retraced my steps to Rio de Janeiro. The wet season having commenced unusually early, the roads soon became nearly impassable, and there are few who can conceive the constant troubles that attend travellers at that period of the year. The loads of the mules were heavy, and the constant up-hill and down-hill work, and the frequent sloughs we had to struggle through, killed three of the mules on the road. The rain fell every day, and had a destructive influence on the healths of Adam and the new

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intervening chains of Cordova and Tucuman presenting barriers to the progress of the storm. In Rio de Janeiro, some slight indications of the pampero are visible; but, from the mountainous nature of the country, nothing is to be apprehended from their violence. The southern banks of the Rio de la Plata present a marked difference to those of the north; the land on the former being extremely low, and therefore fully exposed to the violence of the S.W. winds. The day after the storm, the river

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. Departure from England. Madeira. Experiment on the Line Arrival at Rio de Janeiro. The Bay and its Defences. The City and Public Building Page 1 CHAPTER II. Climate. Thermometer, Barometer, Hygrometer. Diseases. Soil. Fruits, Bananas, Oranges, Fruit of the Passion Flower. Vegetables. Coffee, Cocoa. Tea Plant introduced from China. Botanical Garden. Timber for various purposes. Animal Kingdom, Cattle, Dogs, Tapir, Sloth. Birds, Humming Birds, Anum. Reptiles

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it. I will begin solely by informing you that in the end of 1821, a public agent presented himself in this capital, sent by that Court, communicating the recognition of our independence pronounced by the Government of Janeiro; but that measure was accompanied by alarming circumstances. The east side of the Rio de la Plata, which bears the [page] 4

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bourhood of Rio de Janeiro; while the botanist, constantly occupied, will have some difficulty in persuading himself that new plants do not spring up every day under his feet. While in Europe man must labour hard to make the unkindly earth produce; in this country, he must toil incessantly to restrain the vegetation which would otherwise overrun him with its luxuriance. Turing from this subject, the next inquiry will relate to the productions of the animal kingdom. It may be remarked that

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CHAPTER XIX. Excursion to the Gold Mines of the Rio das Velhas. Feiticeria. Gold Mine of Padre Freitas at Congonhas Sabar . Caet . St. Jo o. Cattas Altas. Gold Mine of Guarda Mor Innocencio. Enficionado. Death of Rosario. Arrial at Villa Rica. Return to Rio de Janeiro and to England. HAVING determined to visit as many of the gold mines as the shortness of my stay would permit, I spent the 1st of October in making preparations for a journey in the direction of Sabar . I obtained various letters

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CHAPTER XVI Departure from La Punta de san Luiz. Head-Quarters of the Forces of La Punta. Proceed towards Cordova. Stay at Luyaba. Cross the Sierra de Cordova. Arrive at Cordova. The former College of the Jesuits. El Pizon. Departure. Traverse the Guaycaru Territories by night. Head-Quarters of Lopez, the Governor of santa F . Ramirez. proceed towards Buenos Ayres. Reach the parana. senonra Carrera. Arrival in Buenos Ayres. Sail on board a Brig bound to Rio de Janeiro. THE morning after my

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play on the Piano and Marimba, and combines with a knowledge of music some acquaintance with the trade of a tailor, may apply at the Apothecary's shop, c. c. From the Rio de Janeiro Gazette of Saturday, 8th July, 1820. The Marimba is a musical instrument much used by the blacks, by whom it was introduced. It is formed of five small steel bars fastened over a half gourd. It yields rather a monotonous sound, but which however does not want admirers among the lower classes. [page] 8

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should be laid before the public for their opinion. This, however, never took place, but the Protector accepted the resignation of the archbishop, ordering his excellency to leave Lima within the term of forty-eight hours, and to wait at Chancay, fourteen leagues from Lima, the determination of the government. On the thirteenth of November the archbishop embarked at Chancay for Rio de Janeiro; the Protector, as in many other cases, forgetting to fulfil his promise of preparing a vessel to conduct

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herself to European forms, but partly adopting the bases of a Representative System. My country then imagined that the time was come when the question respecting Monte Video might be discussed in a pacific manner. We received a Charg d'Affaires sent from Rio de Janeiro, to announce to us the establishment of her independence, to solicit from us the recognition of it, and to conclude the necessary and natural relations; and when it was to be expected that that new state would have begun by preferring

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the Portuguese, to repair the rapid destruction of the others. Among the hulks, the galleon taken by Lord Anson and sold to the Portuguese, is yet visible. The city of Rio de Janeiro is built on the west side of the bay, about three miles from [page]

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brief account of Rio de Janeiro and its neighbourhood, that the eye en every side discovers the most majestic scenery, covered with all the luxuriance of a tropical vegetation; and how [page] 1

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A regular land and sea breeze prevails at Rio de Janeiro, and its value can only be appreciated by those who have resided in a tropical country. The land breeze begins late in the evening, frequently only about daylight, and prevails until eight or nine o'clock in the morning, when it ceases, and in a short time the sea breeze commences and blows until sunset. This is generally the case, but the regularity of the breezes is much modified by the season. In summer time, during the great heat

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in his excursions, he had met with the small banana, sweeter and better, he added, than those cultivated near Rio de Janeiro. He informed me also, that this fruit had served for food to the Puris from the earliest times. It may be added, that the banana is little cultivated by the Portuguese in the interior of the country; indeed, it would be hopeless to attempt it, as they, for the sake of mining, have chosen high and mountainous situations, where the thermometer is too low. The Indians, on

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with thick woods. A very ugly breed of dogs is more numerous than agreeable to foreigners, The Portuguese, whether in Rio de Janeiro or in Lisbon, seldom destroy Mc puppies, but allow them to run wild and live on the public. A constant warfare is kept up between the negroes and these animals. There have been, however, no instance of hydrophobia known. Condamine, it is said, was the first who observed that this dreadful malady was unknown in South Americo, and it may be accounted for, perhaps, by