FREE POPULATION. 



201 



Perhaps the heroic conduct of Camaram and 

 Henrique Dias, the Indian and negro chieftains, 

 in the famous and most interesting contest be- 

 tween the Pernambucans and the Dutch, and 

 the honours subsequently granted by the crown 

 of Portugal to both of them, may have led to 

 the exaltation of the general character of the 

 much-injured varieties of the human species of 

 which they were members. Familiarity be- 

 tween the chieftains of the several corps must 

 be the consequence of their embarkation in the 

 same cause, when the war is one of skirmishes, 

 of ambuscades, of continual alarm, of assistance 

 constantly afforded to each other ; a patriotic 

 war against a foreign invader, in which diffe- 

 rence of religion exists, and each party mortally 

 hates the other. On these occasions all men 

 are equal, or he only is superior whose 

 strength and whose activity surpasses that of 

 others. The amalgamation of casts which 

 is caused by this consciousness of equality 

 could not have had a fairer field for its full 

 accomplishment, than the war to which I have 

 alluded ; and the friendships which were form- 

 ed under these circumstances would not easily 

 be broken off. Although the parties who had 

 been so united might have been, in their situ- 

 ations in life, very far removed from each other, 

 still the participation of equal danger must 

 render dear the companions in peril, and make 



