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An Account of Jome Tarts of the Brazils. 

 By Mr. John Adams. 



TN this place it will not be amifs to take notice of 

 •*• fome parts of the Brazils, which are quite un- 

 known to the Engliib, except their names. 



The moil remarkable places to the northward of 

 Pernambuco, are Rio Grande and Rio Paraiba, both 

 which are yearly vifited by a great number of fmall 

 veiTels, the crews of which are employed in killing 

 cattle i more for the fake of their hides, and tallow, 

 than their fleflij of which, neverthelefs, they jerk great 

 quantities, for the ufe of fuch (hips as fail from 

 Pernambuco, Bahia Todos os Santos, and Rio de 

 Janeiro to Guinea. The inland parts up thefe rivers 

 ^re inhabited by Indians, called Tapuyesi many ot 

 whom fend yearly large droves of cattle (through the 

 Tupique nation, which extends from the fource of 

 Rio St. Francifco, in lat. 8° S. to that of Rio Doce, 

 in 20° S.) to Bahia Todos os Santos, and Rio de Ja- 

 neiro, where they fell them for three or four crufadoes 

 a piece (a crufado is about 2s. 8d. fterling), or ex- 

 change them for knives, hatchets, &c. or coarfe baize ; 

 for a yard of which they will give a good beaft. The 

 reader who defires to have a particular account of 

 thefe Indians, I refer to authors who have written the 

 defcription of this part of the world, and treated of 

 their cuftoms and manners at large ; I intend only to 

 touch upon fuch matters, as, 1 believe, are at prefent 

 unknown to my countrymen. 



Pernambuco, or Olinda, is a large trading town, 

 and the capital of this part of Brazil ; ic has a governor 

 iubordinate to the viceroy at Bahia Todos os Santos; 

 but as this town is pretty well known to geographers, 

 I Ihall mention only a recent piece of Portuguefe policy, 



that 



