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fide the care of the mules and the baggage. But 

 we soon discovered tliat it was difficult to find a 

 serviceable man of this kind, and still more difficult 

 to attach him to our interest. After several fruit- 

 less attempts to procure a well-qualified person we 

 were compelled, as the time fixed for our departure 

 was near at hand, to confide the troop to a mulatto, 

 who, though without sufficient guarantee, declared 

 himself acquainted with the employment, and we 

 gave him our negro slave and another, a free negro, as 

 assistants. How much this involuntary arrangement 

 would impede our journey in a strange country, and 

 frequently place us in the most disagreeable situations, 

 we could not at that time indeed foresee, otherwise 

 we should wilhngly have purchased, with some weeks' 

 delay, the possession of an able and well-disposed 

 guide. This want of a confidential trustworthy 

 guide, well acquainted with the road, was more 

 sensibly felt by us, when our German servant, on 

 the evening previous to our departure, declared 

 that he would not upon any terms accompany us 

 on such a long and dangerous expedition to the 

 savages, but would rather remain behind among 

 Christians. 



During the preparations for our departure, Her 

 Imperial Highness happily arrived at Rio de 

 Janeiro on the 5th of November. What joyful 

 feelings animated us when we saw the august 

 princess make her glorious entry into the capital of 

 the infant kingdom, and were witnesses of the 



