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letters of recommendation, acquired fresh claims 

 to our gratitude, by promising to address our col- 

 lections to the King of Brazil, to be forwarded to 

 his majesty the King of Bavaria. We thus enjoyed 

 the advantage, that our chests would not be sub- 

 ject at the frontier custom-houses to be opened and 

 examined, to the great injury of our collections. It 

 was not without profound emotion that we left this 

 romantic country, and the kind and hospitable 

 inhabitants of Villa Rica, to proceed from the land 

 of gold to that of diamonds. 



