100 WANDERINGS IN 



SECOND idolatry, and still the founder of a system for which 



JOURNEY. * . 



Brazil is greatly and permanently indebted to me, 



though, by the by, the system was only produc- 

 tive of as much good as is compatible with pious 

 fraud ! 



" What means all this ? After reading such 

 incomparable nonsense, should your countrymen 

 wish to be properly informed concerning the 

 Society of Jesus, there are in England documents 

 enough to show that the system of the Jesuits was 

 a system of Christian charity towards their fellow- 

 creatures, administered in a manner which human 

 prudence judged best calculated to ensure success; 

 and that the idolatry which you uncharitably affirm 

 they taught, was really and truly the very same 

 faith which the Catholic church taught for cen- 

 turies in England, which she still teaches to those 

 who wish to hear her, and which she will continue 

 to teach, pure and unspotted, till time shall be no 

 more." 

 Environs The environs of Pernambuco are very pretty. 



of Pernam- 



buco. You see country houses in all directions, and the 

 appearance of here and there a sugar plantation 

 enriches the scenery. Palm-trees, cocoa-nut-trees, 

 orange and lemon groves, and all the different 

 fruits peculiar to Brazil, are here in the greatest 

 abundance. 



At Olinda there is a national botanical garden : 

 it wants space, produce, and improvement. The 

 forests, which are several leagues off, abound with 



