CHAPTEE II 



RIO DE JANEIRO 

 Nov. 13 DEC. 7, 176$ 



Obstacles to landing Viceroy memorialised Boat's crew imprisoned 

 Vegetation, etc. Ship fired at Leave Rio harbour Description of 

 Rio Churches Government Hindrances to travellers Population 

 Military Assassinations Vegetables Fruits Manufactures Mines 

 Jewels Coins Fortifications Climate. 



13th November} As soon as we were well in the river, 

 the captain sent his first lieutenant, Mr. Hicks, with a 

 midshipman, to get a pilot : the boat returned, however, 

 without the officers, but with a Portuguese subaltern. The 

 coxswain informed us that the lieutenant was detained until 

 the captain should go off. A ten-oared boat, containing 

 about a dozen soldiers, then came off and rowed round the 

 ship, no one in it appearing to take the slightest notice of 

 us. A quarter of an hour later another boat came off, on 

 board which was a Disembargador and a colonel of a Portu- 

 guese regiment. The latter asked many questions, and at 

 first seemed to discourage our stay, but ended by being 

 extremely civil, and assuring us that the Governor would 

 give us every assistance in his power. The lieutenant, he 

 said, was not detained, but had not been allowed on shore 

 on account of the practica, but that he would be sent on 

 board immediately. 



I4:th. Captain Cook went on shore this morning. He 

 returned with a Portuguese officer with him in the boat, 



1 This account, from the 13th to the 24th November inclusive, of the 

 treatment of Captain Cook at Rio, has been much condensed from the 

 original "Journal." 



