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submission to military power was universally 

 refused by every British subject, and has been 

 very much discontinued even by the Portuguese. 

 Another annoyance to these visitors was the 

 usual respect paid to the Sacrament, carried 

 with much pomp and ceremony to persons dan- 

 gerously ill. It was expected, that every one 

 by whom it chanced to pass, should kneel, and 

 continue in that posture until it was out of 

 sight; here Englishmen, in some degree, con- 

 formed in proper deference to the religion of 

 the country, but the necessity of this also is 

 wearing off. * 





* I once heard, that a person who had been in England, 

 and had returned to Pernambuco, observed, that the two 

 things which surprised him the most in that country, were, 

 that the people did not die, and that the children spoke Eng- 

 lish. He was asked his reason for supposing that his first 

 wonder was correct, to which he answered, that he never had 

 seen the Sacrament taken to the sick. 



