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LEAVES BRAZIL. 



secure, owing to his great reputation for intro 

 pidity ; but his safety proceeded from my friend 

 of the stockade prison not being the chief ma- 

 gistrate of the place for the year. On the mor- 

 row all parties were preparing to return home ; 

 we saw the ladies set off on horseback, and, 

 according to a strange custom, a number of 

 metal pans were collected, and as they went 

 away from the door the persons who remained 

 beat the pans against each other, so as to make 

 a gingling noise. This is practised as a joke* 

 and on this occasion, as is usual, created much 

 laughter. 



Shortly after this period I received advices from 

 England, which rendered necessary my return 

 home. I gave up my plan of residing in Brazil 

 with reluctance; but I am now much rejoiced 

 that it so happened. Yet at that time it required 

 some resolution to leave the people, the place, 

 and the things in which I had taken deep 

 interest, — my negroes and free people, — my 

 horses and my dogs, and even my cats and 

 fowls ; — the house and the garden which I had 

 1 improving and forming, and the fields 

 which I had cleared and was cultivating. All 

 >elieve me, cost much pain in leaving ; but 

 to those who desired that it should be so. 

 id have soon become a Brazil planter ; the 

 in which a man who rules over slaves is, 

 ed, is not likely to make him a better crea- 



