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about the streets of Olinda until we were again 

 dry. The family consisted of an old lady, her two 

 daughters, and a son, who is a priest, and one of 

 the professors or masters of the seminary. Seve- 

 ral persons of the same class were present, of 

 easy and gentlemanlike manners ; some of them 

 proposed dancing, and although they did not 

 join in the amusement, still they were highly 

 pleased to see others entertained in this manner. 

 Our music was a piano-forte, played by one of 

 the professors, who good-humouredly continued 

 until the dancers themselves begged him to 

 desist. About midnight, we left these pleasant 

 people, and returned to the beach ; the tide 

 was out, and the canoe upon dry land ; we 

 therefore determined to walk; the sand was 

 very heavy, the distance three miles, and after 

 our evening's amusement, this was hard work. 

 I did not attempt this night to go beyond Recife 

 to my cottage, but accepted of a mattress at my 

 friend's residence. 



Three or four families are in the practice of 

 having weekly evening card parties, as was usual 

 in Lisbon. I attended these occasionally, but 

 in them there was no peculiarity of customs. 



The foregoing pages will, I think, suffice to 

 point out the kind of society to be met with in 

 Pernambuco, but this must be sought for, as the 

 families in which it is to be found, are not nume- 

 rous. Of these, very few are in trade ; they are 



