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I immediately entered into measures for effect- 

 ing. I never saw him again. He was a bad 

 fellow, and had twice attempted the life of the 

 persons under whose orders he was placed. He 

 had run away in November, from having drawn 

 his knife, and having threatened to stab the 

 manager with it. 



There is another road to Pillar, besides that 

 by which the vicar had taken me ; it is through 

 a place called Engenho Velho (the old mill). 

 Sugar-works were formerly established here ; 

 but the lands are poor, and the large red ants 

 upon them are so numerous, as to render their 

 cultivation almost impossible ; so much so, that 

 scarcely any persons reside upon them. Many 

 individuals of the lower classes, first obtaining 

 leave from the proprietor, have attempted 

 to rear crops of mandioc and maize upon 

 them ; but their exertions have seldom enabled 

 any one to prevent the plantations from being 

 destroyed by the ants. Huts are to be seen, 

 out of which the inhabitants have been driven 

 by these tormentors : the shelter which the roofs 

 afford is convenient to the ants, and under them 

 they like to form the chief entrances to their 

 cities. I never saw any other situation in which 

 this pest of Pernambuco* had so completely 



* I do not know whether I might not almost say of Brazil : 

 Regarding Itamaraca, there exists the following adage, 

 " What is it that persecutes thee, island?" The answer is 



