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rare cases owners are cruel and beat them. At Caxoeira, a 

 pretty girl was collecting money to buy herself off because, 

 according to her story, her master beat her constantly. There 

 is no slave market in Bahia. The slaves that have not been 

 born in the country, but were brought from the coast, have 

 marks cut on their cheeks, the marks of the tribes to which 

 they belong, and of which they are proud. There are many 

 of these to be seen in the streets ; but there is no means of 

 distinguishing a slave from a freed man. The following slave 

 statistics are taken from the Anglo- Brazilian Times : — 



" In the province of Gopaz the 8,903 slaves registered in 

 1872, had on the 31st of December, 1875, become reduced to 

 7,888 by 357 deaths, 222 liberations, and 436 removals. At 

 the same date there existed 921 freeborn children of slaves. 

 In the province of Pernambuco, during the same four years, 

 the 106,201 slaves diminished 3,386 by death, and 1,049 by 

 emancipations. From September 28th, 187 1, to the end of 

 December last, the number of children of slaves born free 

 under the law of 1871 was 12,312, of whom 2,802 died, leaving 

 9,510. In the province of San Paulo there died, from x\pril, 

 1872, to the end of 1875, of the 147,746 slaves registered, 8,561, 

 and 3,410 were emancipated. In iii of the 151 parishes the 

 freeborn births were 18,176, of whom 5,861 had died." 



We left Bahia on September 25th. The voyage to Tristan 

 da Cunha was not very eventful. A suspicious case of fever 

 appeared on board, and we were for some time in anxious 

 suspense as to whether we were not going to suffer from an 

 epidemic of yellow fever, but all turned out well. We crossed 

 the track of sailing vessels bound round the Cape, and sighted 

 two English vessels bound for Chittagong and Point de Galle. 

 There is some doubt as to when the first Albatross was met 

 with ; but a bird, either an Albatross or the Giant Petrel {Ossi- 

 fraga) was seen on October 4th, in lat. 27° 43'. We arrived 

 at Tristan da Cunha on October 15th. 



