TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



BOOK III. 

 CHAPTER I. 



STAY IN THE CITY OF S. PAULO. 



At the time of our arrival, the province of S. 

 Paulo was governed by a triumvirate, the Conde 

 da Palma having lately left it to assume the govern- 

 ment of Bahia, and his successor, the Baron Von 

 Oeinhausen, the son of a German, formerly go- 

 vernor of Matto-grosso, not having yet arrived. 

 According to ancient usage in these cases, the 

 province is governed by the superior ecclesiastical, 

 civil, and military authorities. The president of 

 this council was Don Mattheus, a venerable old 

 man eighty years of age, who was born in Madeira, 

 and had received his education in France. The 

 other members were the Brigadier of Santos and 

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