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plantation, which has been suffered to decay, 

 and now the chapel alone remains to point out 

 the exact position. The dwelling-house of 

 these works is said to have been defended by 

 the Dutch against the Portuguese, who set fire 

 to it, for the purpose of obliging their enemies 

 to surrender. A large open piece of ground 

 is pointed out as having been the situation upon 

 which these transactions took place. It is dis- 

 tant from Recife about five miles, and the river 

 Capibaribe runs about three quarters of a mile 

 beyond it. I met with few of the peasants who 

 had any knowledge of the Pernambucan war 

 against the Dutch, but I heard this spot more 

 frequently spoken of than any other.* Per- 

 haps if I had had more communication with the 

 southern districts of Pernambuco, I should have 

 discovered that the war was more vividly re- 

 membered there. 



I had an offer of introduction to another 

 Brazilian family, which I readily accepted, and 

 on the 7th August I was summoned by my 

 friend to accompany him to Olinda. He had 

 been invited, and liberty had been given to take 

 a friend. We went in a canoe, and were com- 

 pletely wet through on the way ; but we walked 



* I think that the Caza Forte and the Cazas de Dona 

 Anna Paes, of which an account is given in the History of 

 Brazil, vol.ii. p. 124., distinguish the same place under dif- 

 ferent names. 



