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expedition in which so much more activity than usual had been displayed. The Capuchins of St. Antonio sent two Missionaries to accompany it. Gregorio Fragoso de Albuquerque, the Commander's nephew, set the honourable example of taking a Captain's commission, with only a private's pay, and it was followed by all the other officers. Four companies were formed consisting of sixty men each; the volunteers were in a separate corps. Just as they were embarking, some ships from Rio de Janeiro, laden

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CHAP. VII. 1552. Stade. p. 4. c. 51. p. 5. c. 54. the house where Hans was an inmate, for three weeks. They would not take him to the ship till their feast was over, and before that time she sailed. He had now no other hope than the consolation which they gave him, that ships came every year. There came however a time when he was grateful to Providence for this merciful disappointment. This vessel had captured a Portugueze one in Rio de Janeiro, and given one of the prisoners to the Savages to

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CHAP. XXII. 1648. Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, with the appointment of Governor there; five ships were awaiting him, in conformity to the instructions which the Conde de Villa Pouca had taken out. As soon as he landed, he convoked the magistrates and chief persons of the city, and told them he was authorized by the King to erect a fort in the Bay of Quicombo, on the Angolan coast, in order to secure a supply of Negroes for Brazil: from respect to the truce he was forbidden to make war against the

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in Pernambuco, and his whole thoughts were occupied in a war which might come, he knew not how soon, to his own door. Bad as the age and the people were, they found some instances of goodness, ... in the worst ages and among the worst people some are always to be found. At Rio de Janeiro twelve Indians were restored by persons who purchased them for the sake of setting them free. A person named Jeronymo de Vega advised Maceta to go to Spain, and make his complaint to the King in per [page] 31

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, by which they earned three or four vintens a day. What is commonly called Peruvian balsam, is collected in this Captaincy, chiefly about the town of Guaraparim. At Villa Nova d' Almeida, near the mouth of the Rio dos Reys Magos, the Jesuits in their time had an Hospice, whither the younger members went from the College at the Rio, to acquire the Tupiniquin tongue. In this parish there were more civilized Indians than in any other, in the whole wide diocese of Rio de Janeiro: some Whites, and

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, but to retain all the other places, and the whole territory which he had conquered, upon the plea that Colonia was the only part of his conquests which had rightfully appertained to Portugal before the war. Funes. 3. 104 6. Seat of government removed to the Rio. 1748. 1754. 1759. 27 June, 1763. Conde da Cunha Viceroy. The seat of government in Brazil was at this time removed to Rio de Janeiro. That city, being nearer both to the Mines and to the Plata, was become of greater importance than

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offered their aid for the expedition. They reach Rio de Janeiro. 1565. Great part of the necessary force and stores was collected here: he then descended to the coast, and went from place to place, preaching to the people upon the necessity of bringing this expedition to the end desired, and promising, in the name of the Governor, forgiveness of temporal sins to all who should embark in it: in a colony which was continually supplied with convicts this pardon was no inefficient bounty. Mamalucos and

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assassination of M. Du Clerc; he had ordered him to deliver the surviving prisoners, and to levy such a contribution, as should at once punish the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro for their inhumanity, and amply defray the expence of the great armament which had been sent upon that service. It was not supposed that the Governor had been concerned in the assassination of M. Du Clerc, but he was required to name the author of that crime, that exemplary justice might be done. Du Guay-Trouin added, it

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CHAPTER XXVIII. Barreto Governor of Brazil. Tumults in Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco. Small Pox in Brazil. Peace with Spain. The Guerens ravage the borders of Bahia, and the adjoining settlements: they are expelled by the Paulistas. Discovery and conquest of Piauhi. Foundation of Nova Colonia. Disputes with Spain concerning the left bank of the Plata. Pestilence. CHAP. XXVIII. 1657. Barreto Governor General. 1662. After the triumphant termination of the Pernambucan war, Barreto, who had borne

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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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Barreto, Governor General of, 549; Rio de Janeiro separated from the general government, 551; Mascarenhas, Governor General, 553; Obidos, Governor General, ib.; ravages of the small-pox in, 554; Alexander de Sousa Freire, Governor General, 558; three Bishopricks established, 570; question respecting the boundary of, 572; foundation of Nova Colonia, ib.; Antonio de Sousa de Menezes, Governor, 581; superseded by the Marquez das Minas, 585; pestilence, 586; Indian slavery again abolished in, 603

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of London was sent out upon this adventure. These traders were well received: the utmost confidence existed on both sides. There was an alarm that four French ships which had been driven from Rio de Janeiro were about to attack Santos, and the English lent guns and ammunition for its defence. Even bigotry did not interrupt this good understanding; an Englishman was buried in the church, and when orders came from St. Sebastians that the English were not to be permitted to enter the church

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of his companions, who were men of noble family, married two of Caramuru's daughters, and as the natives were for his sake well affected towards the Portugueze, every thing went on well for a time. Bahia de Todos os Santos, or All Saints Bay, wherein the capital of Brazil was afterwards erected, is unquestionably one of the finest harbours in the world. Here, as well as at Rio de Janeiro upon the same coast, the sea seems to have broken in upon the land; or more probably some huge lake has

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CHAP. XXVIII. 1660. He conciliates the Paulistas, and restores order. Annaes do Rio de Janeiro, MSS. Mem. Hist. sobre o Rio, c. Patriota, T. 2, No. 1. Salvador Correa was at Santos when he received intelligence of these proceedings. He forthwith registered his patent, and sent an official copy to the Vereadores of S. Paulo, which enabled the better part of the inhabitants to recover their ascendancy and restore order. He directed Barbalho to continue in the Government by virtue of the

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. When information of this war between the two parties, and of the massacre, reached Rio de Janeiro, the Governor rightly conceived that this was one of those urgent cases in which the law required him to repair immediately to the Mines, without waiting for permission or instructions from Portugal. He set off therefore with four companies of troops, and went to the Arrayal of the Rio das Mortes, the nearest place to the scene of this enormous crime, and he remained there some weeks endeavouring

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this, though there were illuminations at Lisbon, and a boasting account of the victory was published. Bom foi o successo do Rio de Janeiro; mas estas ac oens nam se costumam festejar com luminarias, e menos com as fanfarronadas da rela am que se imprimio. Os Portuguezes sempre foram os mesmos, mas necessitam de quem os leve ao conflicto com audacia e com disciplina. Cartas de Joze da Cunha Brochado. (17 March, 1711) MSS. [page] 11

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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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Villegagnon's persecution, was one whose name looks more like that of an English than of a Frenchman; the Portugueze write it Joam Boles. He was a man of considerable learning, being well versed both in Greek and Hebrew. Luis da Gram caused him to be apprehended, with three of his comrades, one of whom feigned to become a Catholic; the others were cast into prison, and there Boles had remained eight years, when he was now sent for to be martyred at Rio de Janeiro, for the sake of terrifying his

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. Cartas, MSS. (9 Jan. 1712.) From the same letter it appears, that in the preceding reign he had pointed out to the Court the inadequacy of the fortifications at Rio de Janeiro to protect the place, and presented a plan for their improvement. The King was pleased to thank him for this proof of his zeal; .. the plan was laid aside, and the warning neglected. [page] 12

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Vasconcellos e Sousa, before the northern Captaincy was quiet, and while Rio de Janeiro was in possession of the French. The seas were, at this time, greatly infested by pirates, the last desperate remains of the Buccaneers; and they haunted the coasts of Brazil more than ever, since the discovery of the mines. To prevent such loss as was caused by their depredations, it was necessary to keep up an establishment of cruisers, and to strengthen the forts also. Under the plea of defraying these

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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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the Tagus. Aneddoti. t. 2. 134 149. Vita di Pombal. 2. 215. Different conduct of the Bishop of Rio de Janeiro. The Bishop of the Rio, D. Fr. Antonio de Desterro, acted very differently from the Primate. Being a Friar, he appears on this occasion to have indulged the envy and hatred with which that description of Religioners commonly regarded the Jesuits. When the first instructions arrived, he was disabled by disease; but as soon as he recovered he issued the most virulent Pastoral Epistle that

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. 200. 203. City of S. Paulo. The Captaincy-General of S. Paulo, including half the old Captaincy of S. Vicente, from which it was originally an offset, and part of S. Amaro, extends from latitude 20 30 S. to 28 , with a mean breadth of one hundred leagues from east to west. On the north, it is bounded by Minas Geraes and Goyaz; the Serra de Mantiquera dividing it from the former, the Parana from the latter and from Mato Grosso; it has the sea on the east, the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro on the

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CHAP. IX. 1568. prospered, and became a good advanced post against the Tamoyos, and the French and English interlopers. The Indian Chief, Martim Affonso20, was stationed with his people about a league from the city, at a place now called St. Louren o. The Tamoyos cherished a deadly hatred toward this Chief, and eagerly desired to take him alive and devour him. It happened that four French vessels arrived at Cape Frio, perhaps those which had been successively expelled from Rio de Janeiro and

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Jesuits had taken none; .. theirs was truly a labour of love: and the Indians, looking upon their successors as mercenary interlopers, were as little pleased with them as the poor Clergy themselves were with 10 The statement in the Aneddoti (2. 137.) is, that the Jesuits had seven Missions in the diocese of Pernambuco, including Paraiba and Seara; nine in that of Bahia, five in Rio de Janeiro, and six in S. Paulo. [page] 54

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for refreshment. Muriel. 342 3. Funes. 3. 97 9. Cazal. 1. 124. Defeat of an English and Portugueze squadron before Colonia. Meantime Gomes Freyre had dispatched a squadron from Rio de Janeiro for the relief of the place. It consisted of the Lord Clive, carrying sixty-four guns, and the Ambuscade, of forty, both English; the Gloria, of thirty-eight, some small armed vessels and transports, eleven sail in all, with about five hundred troops on board. The English vessels were privateers: they had

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CHAP. XLIV. of that commercial importance which their situations formerly assured to them, and which entered into the views of their great founders. But the whole civilized world must be rebarbarized before Rio de Janeiro can cease to be one of the most important positions upon the globe. Cazal. 2. 26. 30. Jaboatam. Preamb. 54. The city contained three Monasteries,.. Benedictine, Franciscan, and Carmelite; a Franciscan Nunnery, a Nunnery of Theresans, an Hospice of the Almoners of the Holy

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-Trouin had entered and sacked that city also. Yet there was another objection to soliciting, or even accepting aid from Great Britain and Holland; for, although an allied squadron might undoubtedly facilitate the recovery of Rio de Janeiro, their en Cartas dos Embaixadores. MSS. 12 Jan. 16 Feb. 23 Feb. 1712. [page] 12

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admitted through a wicket. They had chosen a respectable man to make known their pleasure to the Governor: .. it was, that he should immediately fit out the ships which were in the harbour, and enlist men, for an expedition to recover Rio de Janeiro from the French. Such a proposal might well astonish the Governor; he replied, that he had neither ships, artillery, nor men sufficient, to attack such a squadron as that of the enemy; that he had not money for such an expedition; and that, if it were

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; dispute with the French Governor of Cayenne, 29; retake from them the fort of Cabo do Norte, 31; negociations with Spain, 137; concluded, 140; eject the Spanish Missionaries on the Orellana, 142; alarm of the Portugueze at Rio de Janeiro on the invasion of the French, 108; expel them, 111; cruel usage of prisoners, 112; negligence of their commander on the invasion of Du Guay Trouin, 116; wretched conduct of the Governor, 117; they abandon the city, 119; alarm in the cabinet at the operations

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. Brazil offered to the Duke of Braganza. The division of Brazil into two governments had been found inconvenient, and two years before the expiration of Brito's term, that of Rio de Janeiro was again made subordinate to Bahia. Diogo Louren o da Veiga was the new Governor5. The year of his arrival was that fatal year for Portugal, in which Sebastian and the whole flower of the kingdom were cut off. This event might have been productive of extraordinary consequences to Brazil. Felipe II. of Spain, while

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CHAP. XXIII. 1640. founded, not upon religion and conscience, but upon a miserable superstition, that had contributed to destroy both. At. St. Paulo, where the people were more immediately implicated, and knew that the excommunication was levelled against them in particular, they rose and expelled the Jesuits from the city. When this was known at Rio de Janeiro, the master of a ship in the harbour fired a salute of joy, for which he was deservedly punished by the Governor. Diaz Ta o now

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ground upon the Plata, when the seat of the Monarchy was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. No general character of the manners and morals of a people, under such differences of climate, country, and surrounding circumstances, could be offered, without presumptuousness and manifest injustice; but this may safely be asserted, that a firm foundation for power and prosperity had been laid, which nothing but the most extreme and obstinate misconduct on the part of the Government, or the most

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Doria, Giuseppe, his intercourse with the English at Santos, i. 355. Drake, effect of his hostilities in America, i. 355. Dramas, religious, of the Indians, ii. 700. Drunkenness, produced by snuff made from grains of the Yupa, i, 641. Druses, of Syria, their mode of moulding the head, i. 657. Du Clerc, leads a French squadron against the Rio de Janeiro, iii. 108; lands without opposition, 109; enters the city, 110; overcome by the Portugueze, 111; murdered, 113 Du Guay Trouin, commands a

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Brazilian trade that they treated all interlopers as pirates, yet they permitted this French colony to remain four years unmolested; and had it not been for the treachery of Villegagnon to his own party, Rio de Janeiro would probably have been, at this day, the capital of a French colony. A body of Flemish adventurers were ready to embark for Brazil, waiting only for the report of the ship-captain who carried De Lery home, and ten thousand Frenchmen would have emigrated, if the object of Coligny

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St. Vicente for a spitting of blood with which he was then afflicted. Expedition against the French. Early in January they reached Rio de Janeiro. The Governor's intention was to enter in the dead of the night, and surprize the island; they were espied by the centinels, and obliged to anchor off the bar. The French immediately made ready for defence, forsook their ships, and with eight hundred native archers retired to their forts. Mem de Sa now discovered that he was in want of canoes and small

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CHAP. XIV. 1624. Zeal of the Portugueze. Jornada da Bahia c. 9. G. Giuseppe p. 64. Jornada da Bahia c. 4. Franscisco de Moura went in one to take the command in Bahia, another was destined to Pernambuco, the third to Rio de Janeiro, the fourth to Angola. The Portugueze were aware of the value of their colonies; a hundred thousand crowns were given by the city of Lisbon towards the expences of government for the deliverance of St. Salvador; the Duke of Braganza made a voluntary contribution of

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introducing it was left to the new Governor, Gomes Freyre de Andrada, who was removed from the Government of Rio de Janeiro to that of Minas Geraes, when the Conde das Galveas was promoted to the Viceroyalty of Brazil. If there was one Portugueze family more than any other from which pure loyalty and uncorrupted patriotism might have been expected, it was that of 8 Freyre de Andrada. This Gomes Freyre had not derogated from his illustrious name during his administration; and he was destined to

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administration, 582. Menezes, Diogo, succeeds Botelho as Governor of Brazil, i. 390; forms a settlement at Seara, 391. Menezes, Francisco, a friar, his exertions for the defence of Rio de Janeiro against the French, iii. 110. Menezes, Manoel de, commands the Portugueze reinforcements to Brazil, i. 446. Menezes, Pedro Cesar, Governor of Angola, defends Loanda against the Dutch, ii. 8; retreats to the fort of Santa Cruz, 9. Menezes, D. Pedro Cesar de, Governor of Maranham, ii. 596. Menezes, Rodrigo

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, iii. 86; attempt to assassinate him, 88; his flight, 91. Castro de Moraes, Francisco, Governor of the Rio de Janeiro, iii. 108; his conduct on the invasion of the French, 109; on the second invasion, under Du Guay Trouin, 117; ransoms the city, iii. 122; he is disgraced and superseded, 124. Casts, no distinction of in Brazil, ii. 691. Cata, in Brazilian mining, iii. 53. Catalina, S. arrival of Senabria's expedition at, i. 175. Cats, value of the first couple carried to Cuyaba, iii. 892. Cattle

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the Rio. There was a settlement at Cabo Frio, which bore the name of city, .. one of the many abortive ones of the new world. When the Papel Forte was written, it had a fort without men, some dozen Portugueze inhabitants, and one Indian village. The population of Rio de Janeiro at the same time, is stated at two thousand five hundred, with a garrison of about six hundred. In this respect it approached nearly to Bahia, but the city was very inferior24 in beauty, and habitations were more thinly25

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Captaincy of Espirito Santo was at this time next to St. Amaro; for Rio de Janeiro was not settled till a later period. This was asked and obtained by Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, a fidalgo, who having spent the best years of his life in India and amassed a fortune there, ventured and lost the whole in this scheme of colonization. His limits were to begin where those of Porto Seguro ended on the South. He fitted out a great expedition, in which not less than sixty fidalgos and men of the royal household

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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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CHAP. X. 1578. Attempt of Antonio the Prior, upon Brazil. Noticias, MSS. 1. 56. trial to profit by the disturbances which followed; they dispatched three ships to Rio de Janeiro, and sent in to inform Salvador Correa de Sa, the Governor, that they came with letters from Antonio, the Prior of Crato, whom they called King. He would neither receive the letters, nor permit them to enter, and the bar was too well fortified for them to force their way. Thus ended Antonio's attempt upon Brazil, less

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Governor only waited for some ships from Rio de Janeiro to begin his projected attempt against the Dutch Captaincies. This mode of conduct was probably concerted with Antonio Telles; the part which he intended to take could not long continue doubtful: the enemy were already upon their guard; little injury could arise from confirming their suspicions of him; but it was of great importance to prevent them from entertaining any doubt of Hoogstraten's fidelity. Two regiments, under Vidal and Martim

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were not however without effect. When Magalhaens, three years afterwards, touched at Rio de Janeiro upon his way, he would purchase nothing of the natives, except provisions, that he might give no cause for complaint. A slave was offered for a hatchet; .. the natives then had already been taught a slave-trade. Eight or nine fowls were given for the King of Clubs, or any of his pictured companions. The French trade to Brazil. The French began very early to claim a share in the wealth of the

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de Janeiro after a prosperous voyage, and remained there a fortnight. The Adelantado here, being crippled by a contraction of the sinews, appointed Juan Osorio to command in his stead. Having made this arrangement they proceeded to the place of their destination, anchored at isle St. Gabriel within the Plata, and then on its southern shore, and beside a little river, Don Pedro de Mendoza laid the foundation of a town, which because of its healthy climate he named Nuestra Se ora de Buenos Ayres

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severe defeat, after which they delivered up the criminals, and petitioned to be recived as allies upon the same terms as the other tribes. Villegagnon's espedition to Brazil. Thuanus. l. 4. t. 1. p. 144. Mem de Sa had now to turn his arms against a more formidable enemy. From the time of its earliest discovery the French had frequented the coast of Brazil; they were now attempting to establish themselves in Rio de Janeiro, under Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon, a native of Provence, and Knight of

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former were dead or astray, they were not permitted to marry again till a considerable time had elapsed; a circumstance which dissatisfied them and greatly embarrassed the Missionaries. The Queen Regent and her Council were not pleased that Mem de Sa had not retained possession of Villegagnon's island; and when intelligence arrived of the peace which Nobrega and Anchieta had concluded with the Tamoyos, they resolved not to let slip the opportunity of establishing themselves at Rio de Janeiro, and

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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