TOWN OF RECIFE. 7 



As there are no inns or furnished lodgings at 

 Recife, or at Olinda *, an acquaintance of my 

 fellow-passenger obtained some temporary rooms 

 for us, and supplied us with what we wanted. 

 We are therefore at last quietly settled in our 

 new habitation, if I may be allowed to call it 

 quiet, whilst some twenty black women are 

 under the windows bawling out, in almost all 

 tones and keys of which the human voice is 

 capable, — oranges, bananas, sweetmeats, and 

 other commodities, for sale. 



The town of St. Antonio do Recife, commonly 

 called Pernambuco, though the latter is pro- 

 perly the name of the captaincy, consists of 

 three compartments, connected by two bridges. 

 A narrow, long neck of sand stretches from 

 the foot of the hill, upon which Olinda is situ- 

 ated to the southward. The southern extremity 

 of this bank expands and forms the site of that 

 part of the town particularly called Recife, 

 as being immediately within the reef. There 

 is another sand-bank also of considerable extent, 

 upon which has been built the second division, 

 called St. Antonio, connected with that already 

 mentioned by means of a bridge. Yet a third 

 division of the town remains to be mentioned, 

 called Boa Vista, which stands upon the main 



* A house answering both these purposes has lately been 

 established at Recife by an Irishman and his wife. 1815. 



