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modation for the present. Some days afterwards, 

 we hired a small house in the suburb of St. Anna, 

 which we preferred on account of its elevated situa- 

 tion, on the declivity of some hills, and the prospect 

 which it afforded over Cape Corcovado. Our 

 books, instruments, and other effects, were convey- 

 ed to our new abode on the shoulders of negroes. 

 The officers at the custom-house made no difficulties, 

 and gave us no trouble, when they found that we had 

 come in the Austria frigate, and under the protec- 

 tion of his majesty the Emperor of Austria. In 

 general, many cu-cumstances appeared to combine 

 to aid us novices in our first domestic arrangements 

 on American ground. To our great satisfaction 

 we soon met with the very obliging M. Von Langs- 

 dorff, the Prussian consul-general, who is well 

 known in the literary world by his account of the 

 voyage round the world, in which he accompanied 

 Commodore Krusenstern. He welcomed us with 

 the greatest cordiality j and several of our German 

 fellow-countrymen, who had settled at Rio de Ja- 

 neiro with mercantile views, endeavoured to serve 

 us to the utmost of their power. Besides our com- 

 mon country, we were united with them by the 

 interest which they felt in the ample treasures of 

 nature with which they were so imperfectly ac- 

 quainted. In justice to our own feelings we must 

 gratefully mention the names of our worthy coun- 

 trymen, Messrs. Scheiner, Hindriks, Schimmel- 

 busch, Deusson, Frohlich, and Diirming. We 

 also received most friendly counsel in the regulation 



