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When the, day’s coritiiinitions have been deemed ‘sufficient; the dingy collectors'® 
ve fete pply the well-known text of “* being worthy of their hire” an@adjourn 
tothe SeuceM tavern’ to catouse at the expense ‘of the credulous. THe nian who” 
edtries' ‘the’ image” leads’ the ‘Van, and extending it Vefore him at arn’ slength) as he’ 
enters the’ tavern-door, never fails ‘to exclaim, ‘ Quem vai a‘diante paga.”” Anglieey" 
«he who ‘énters first pays the piper.” ‘zoT9 bt? 9d 
“Phe festival’ of Nossa Senhora d’ Atalaya is kept at her chapel near'the villageof! 
Aiea Gallega,’ on the southern banks of the Tagus, immediately opposite ‘the city? 
of Lisbon ; andon that day hundreds of blacks are seen crossing the Tagiis in| catraios| 
(shére-boats). The beginning of the day is spent in hearing mass, which is followed 
by a sermon. | But no sooner are these ceremonials over, than a scene of debauchery’ 
follows, which would make even the ancient votaries of Bacelius blush. | ATH M287 
6 The sermon: here> alluded to is) preached hy a negro priest, the only one-L, believe 
who resides in Lisbon, the| Brazils being the chief residence and domains of the black 
ecclesiastics... Negroes thus,admitted into holy orders receive an education, stil] more 
superficial, if. possible, than their white fellow labourers; and the blunders whith they 
commit, when they attempt to expound the Scriptures from their pulpits, are worthy 
of those committed by the Barbadoes black methodist divines. 
It must not however be inferred that these saints “‘ of the retreating forehead and 
depressed vertex’ uré a jot less ingenious than the European friars in the profitable 
knack of applying scriptural texts to their advantage: this the following anecdote will 
proxe.. In the, refectory of a black community at Rio de Janeiro, the same abuse 
existed as in those of European friaries; the superior and the elder brethren, of, the 
house applying, to, their, own use the choicest viands and most delicate morsels, and 
leaying.the hungry novices at the nether end of the table, to break or keep their fast 
upon the, mere, scraps and bones of the repast. ; ra Pe 
_ On, one. of these occasions.a junior brother (with whom I, was afterwards personally. 
acquainted; ) received as his portion/a hollow bone, without a vestige, of any, thing onite, 
This he immediately applied to his lips, and as if converting it into a wind instrument, 
raiseda| hideous, yell through it... The superior, highly scandalized at such conduct, 
insisted upon knowing the reason of it. “ Holy father,” answered the novice, “ Lhaye, 
readin the Revelations that at. the sound of. the trumpet the fiesh will be reunited, to 
the;bone;,and I have been trying to verify. the prophecy upon this bone.to saye myself. 
fom starvation.’ ‘Ay tS 
‘Bat the plates—what shall we say of the plates? Why what, but thatthey 
ate most capital. We open the book, on the word of a reviewer, quite at) 
random, and what have we there? We have opened upon a Saloia retailing’ 
fruit—decidedly the worst picture in the book—and yet how famous the’ 
expression of the triangular-nosed old woman—how insinuating, yet how 
impudent her gesture of kimbo-armed negociation with the fiery-haired damsel, 
looking down from that indescribable rift in the wall which. passes for a.window,, 
-Thensthe pain of negroes—or negresses, we cannot decide which—pursuing. 
theirwomentionable game in the corner. Vide also. the: priests )in, the back-, 
ground andj the dogs in the fore.—It is superb—but nothing to the half dozen 
othérs which grace the book. Therefore, good reader, buy it. r 
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