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1)6 conceived ; and though, as an 

 amusement, it may be intentionally 

 harmless, it certainly breaks down 

 the barriers of decency, and of 

 course paves the way to depravity 

 and vice, 



" These amuseisents, with par- 

 ties into the country, and a few 

 others of a trifling nature, added to 

 the enervating idleness in which the 

 Brasiiians are plunged, constitute 

 their whole happiness; a happiness 



very incomplete and unsatisfactor.y, 

 while subject to the effects of those 

 baleful passions, avarice, revenge, 

 and cruelty. Happily, however, the 

 two latter have considerably declin- 

 ed from Bahia to the southward ; as- 

 sassination there is seldom known 

 to take place, and never but on the 

 greatest provocation : though still 

 in use, the lurking knife is sheathed, 

 and murders are scarcely more cvk- 

 mon than w ith iis." 



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