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CHAP. IV. 



JOURNEY TO GOIANA. —JOURNEY FROM GOiANA TO 

 PARAIBA, AND BACK TO GOIANA. 



[ HAD much desired to perform some con- 

 siderable journey into the less populous and 

 less cultivated part of the country. The chief 

 engineer officer of Pernambuco had intended to 

 visit all the fortresses within his extensive dis- 

 trict, and had kindly promised to permit me to 

 accompany him, but unfortunately his projected 

 journey was delayed from some cause connected 

 with his place, until the following season. As 

 I did not know how soon 1 might be under the 

 necessity of returning to England, I could not 

 postpone my views for this length of time, and 

 therefore made enquiries among my friends and 

 acquaintance, and discovered that the brother 

 of a gentleman resident at Goiana, was about to 

 set off for that place, and would, probably, from 

 thence proceed further into the country, with 

 some object in view connected with trade. It 

 was my intention to advance as far as Seara. I 

 applied to the governor for a passport, which 

 was immediately granted without any difficulty. 

 On the afternoon of the 19th October, 1810, 



