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vated but improving country. He showed me 

 some of his drawings, which I thought well 

 executed. I never again had an opportunity of 

 seeing him ; for when I returned from Seara, I 

 had not time to enquire and seek for him, and 

 he died before my second voyage to Pernam- 

 buco. He was forming a Flora Pernambueana, 

 which he did not live to complete. 



Senhor Joaquim had business at Paraiba, 

 which he intended to have sent his brother Felix 

 to transact ; but as I offered to accompany him, 

 he thought it would be pleasant to go with me, 

 and show the lions of that city. We sent ofi 

 fiis black guide and my servant with a loaded 

 fiorse before us, and followed the next day with 

 his black boy. We crossed the Campinas de 

 Goiana Grande about sunrise, and passed the 

 sugar-plantation of that name, belonging to 

 Senhor Giram, standing at the foot of the hill, 

 which carries you to the Dous Rios. The road 

 I afterwards followed to Rio Grande, is through 

 Dous Rios, but the road to Paraiba strikes off 

 just before you reach it, to the right. The road 

 between Goiana and Paraiba presents nothing 

 particularly interesting, — the hills are steep 

 but not high, and woods, plantations, and cot- 

 tages are, as usual, the objects to be seen. The 

 distance is thirteen leagues. We entered the 

 city of Paraiba at twelve o'clock, and rode to 

 the house of the colonel Mattias da Gama, a 



