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Grosso. His administration of justice was in 

 general summary, but on one occasion he waved 

 (lis usual severity ; he was informed, whilst 

 playing at cards at the house of Senhor Marcos, 

 which is near to the palace, that a soldier was 

 robbing his garden. He answered, " Poor fel- 

 low, great must be his hunger when he runs 

 the risk of entering his Governor's garden — 

 don't molest him." Some persons were in the 

 practice of taking doors off their hinges, and 

 other tricks of the same sort, during the night ; 

 the Governor had in vain attempted to discover 

 who they were, and he resolved at last to wrap 

 himself up in his cloak and to apprehend some 

 of them, if possible, with his own hands. A 

 young man, with whom I was acquainted, had 

 met the Governor on one of these nights, he 

 demanded his name, and, on discovering who 

 it was, admonished him to be at home at an 

 earlier hour on the following evening. 



The family of the Feitozas still exists in the 

 interior of this captaincy and that of Piauhi, in 

 possession of extensive estates, which are covered 

 with immense droves of cattle. In the time of 

 Joam Carlos, the chiefs had risen to such power, 

 and were supposed to be so completely out of 

 the reach of punishment, that they entirely 

 refused obedience to the laws, both civil and 

 criminal, such as they are. They revenged 

 their own wrongs ; persons obnoxious to them 



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