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which they ride quite unencumbered. They are 

 said to be unmindful of all religious observances; 

 and never to hear mass or confess their sins. It 

 is likewise said that they never marry out of 

 their own nation. 



There are now several British merchants estab- 

 lished at Recife, and a consul likewise resides at 

 that place ; but at the time of my coming away, 

 there was no Protestant chapel, no clergyman, 

 nor even a burial-ground for our countrymen. 

 An Act of Parliament has, I believe, provided 

 for the establishment of these things, but no 

 steps have been taken towards the accomplish- 

 ment of the directions of the legislature. With- 

 out any outward appearance of religion, how are 

 we to expect that the people of Brazil are to 

 regard us as any thing better than what we were 

 represented to them as being in former times? — 

 as pagans, animals, and horses — pagoens, bichos, 

 and cavallos : this is literally true ; and although 

 they are now aware that at any rate we have the 

 forms of human^beings, that we have the power 

 of speech, and that we have our share of intellect 

 in all the common transactions of the world, still 

 how are we to look for respect from them to- 

 wards a set of men, who have no appearance, at 

 least, of possessing any religious feelings? It 

 should be recollected that we are living among a 

 people who are deeply rivetted to their own 



