10 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



lumters and learned correspondence * which lie 

 kej)t up there, has done much for the cultivation 

 of this branch of science; and his collections, which 

 have been, for the most part, presented to the 

 Berlin museum, were the chief sources for the 

 study of it. The travels of Prince Maximilian of 

 Neuvvied, and of many zealous Germans, both 

 men of learning, and collectors, at length finish 

 the work; and thus, by German activity and indus- 

 try, this Portuguese part of the world will be con- 

 quered for the sciences, which already owe to 

 the Germans, Count Hoifmannsegg and Professor 

 Link, the knowledge of the Flora and Fauna of 

 Portugal. 



The government of the island of St. Catharine, 

 contains, as we were informed, about 30,000 in- 

 habitants ; among whom, two blacks may be rec- 

 koned to one white. We found the slave-trade 

 still carried on here ; and this government alone 

 requires, yearly, from five to seven ships full of 

 negroes, reckoning each at a hundred, to supply 

 the place of those who die on the plantations. 

 The Portuguese, themselves, import them from 

 their African possessions in Congo and Mosam- 

 bique. t The price of a man in the prime of life 



* We mention here with gratitude Father Francisco Agos- 

 tinho Gomez in Bahia. 



f The slaves from Mosambique are the smallest number. 

 The Guinea negroes are distinguished by the smaller angle of 

 their profile, more projecting jaw-bones, by the deeper black of 



