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CHAP. XIII. 





REMOVAL OF THE AUTHOR TO ITAMARACA. THE 



ISLAND. CONCEPTION AND PILLAR. THE FESTIVAL 



OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY. —JOURNEY TO 

 GOIANA. THE TOQUE. — THE COW-POX. 



A FEW days after I had sent the remainder 

 of my people to Itamaraca, I gave up Ja? 

 guaribe to its owner, and rode to Recife, where 

 I remained for some days. 



I had been introduced several months before 

 to the vicar of Itamaraca ; and at the time that 

 I crossed over to the island to agree with the 

 owner of Amparo about my removal, . I made a 

 visit to this priest, and was received by him 

 with the greatest cordiality. As the plantation 

 of Amparo had no cottage unoccupied at that 

 time, or indeed that was fit to be inhabited, I 

 requested the vicar to obtain for me a house in 

 the town, as it is called, of our Lady of the 

 Conception, in which stands the parochial 



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