INTRODUCTION. 



IN offering this little Work to the Pub- 

 lic, more especially to sailors and travel- 

 lers, it may not be improper to state, that 

 the following pages are generally the re- 

 sult of my own observations, during fif- 

 teen years that I was at sea, and sub- 

 sequently whilst I was resident for six 

 years in South America, and the Bra- 

 zils. 



