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CHAP. IX. 



rOVAGE FROM PERNAMBUCO TO MAR AN HAM. — ST. LUIZ. 

 — TRADE. — WILD INDIANS. — THE GOVERNOR. AL- 

 CANTARA. THE AUTHOR SAILS FROM ST. LUIZ, AMD 



ARRIVES IN ENGLAND. 



X^IGHT days after my return from Seam, ar- 

 rived a vessel from England, bringing let- 

 ters which obliged me to leave Pernambuco and 

 proceed to Maranham. As a cargo could not 

 be obtained for the brig at the former place, 

 the consignee determined to send her to Maran- 

 ham, and being myself desirous of taking ad- 

 vantage of the first opportunity, I prepared for 

 the voyage, and sailed in the course of forty- 

 eight hours. 



We weighed anchor on the 25th February, 

 and had a prosperous passage of seven days. 

 We were in sight of the land nearly the whole 

 time, and occasionally, as the brig was small, 

 and the master wished, if possible, to become 

 acquainted with the points of land, we were 

 very near to it. The Portuguese ships seldom 

 come up this coast without a pilot, nor is it 

 prudent to do otherwise ; but we could not ob- 

 tain one without delay, to which the master ob- 

 jected. He had scarcely ever before been out 



