This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... two hides loosely round the two bags of farinha, saying, that if we proceeded without disguising what they contained, we should at some hamlet upon the road be obliged to satisfy the people, who would probably beg part of it from us. He had not known, before he enquired from these children, that this part of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... two hides loosely round the two bags of farinha, saying, that if we proceeded without disguising what they contained, we should at some hamlet upon the road be obliged to satisfy the people, who would probably beg part of it from us. He had not known, before he enquired from these children, that this part of the country was in such a dreadful state of want. The inhabitants had eaten up their own scanty crop: and some of them had even been tempted by the exorbitant price, to carry their stock to Seara for sale. They had not heard of the supply which had arrived at that place from the southward. We reached Aracati on the fifth day. I remained two days at Aracati, that the horses might be brought from the island upon which they had Arruda says, it is white, vide Appendix; therefore some other ingredient may have been mixed with that wliich I saw. been put out to grass. I experienced fully now what the guide had before told me respecting the horses. They had all lost flesh, and were apparently less fit for work than when I first arrived at Aracati, though doubtless the relief from daily work for so long a period must have rendered them better able to renew it again now. The Spanish discoverers in South America, who understood the business into which they had entered, strongly inculcated to their people the necessity of the steady and regular continuance of their journies, unless a pause could have been made for some length of time. I bought a large dog at Aracati, which had been trained to keep watch over the baggage of travellers. A man presented himself here, requesting to be allowed to go with me to Pernambuco. He described himself as a Portuguese sailor, an European by birth, and as having belonged to the Portuguese sloop of war, called the Andorinha, whic...
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