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self much dreaded by his outrageous proceed- 

 ings ; he had carried from their parents' houses 

 the daughters of some persons of respectability 

 in the captaincy, murdering the friends and re- 

 latives who opposed his entrance. The man 

 was at last taken j Amaro Joaquim would have 

 had him executed, but he found this was not to 

 be done, from the interest which the family 

 made for him, and therefore ordered him to be 

 flogged. Nogueira said, that being half & Jidalgo, 

 a nobleman, this mode of punishment could not 

 be practised upon him. The governor then or- 

 dered that he should be flogged upon only one 

 side of his body, that his Jidalgo side might not 

 suffer, desiring Nogueira to say which was his 

 Jidalgo side. He was accordingly punished in 

 this manner, and after remaining some time in 

 prison, was sent to Angola for life. The city 

 of Paraiba still enjoyed the good effects of Amaro 

 Joaquim's strict government. 



I was acquainted with him at Pernambuco, 

 before I set off on this journey ; his appearance 

 and his conversation both bespoke a man of supe- 

 rior abilities. When I saw him in Recife, he was 

 on his way to Piauhi, of which captaincy he had 

 been appointed governor. He died on board a 

 coasting vessel, on the passage to Piauhi, of a 

 fever. 



Senhor Joaquim wished to return by the sea 

 shore toGoiana, a distance of twenty-two leagues. 



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