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JOURNEY TO GO I AN A. 



lands, belonging to a religious lay brotherhood 

 of free negroes of Olinda, which were tenanted 

 by and subdivided among a great number of 

 persons of low rank, whites, mulattos, and 

 blacks. 



The work went on regularly, and I had soon 

 very little in which to employ my time, except 

 ing in those things by which I might think 

 proper to amuse myself. 



In the beginning of June, it was necessary 

 that I should visit Goiana; however 1 took a 

 circuitous route for the purpose of seeing some- 

 thing new. I was accompanied by an old free 

 man of colour and by Manoel, a faithful African. 

 We slept the first night at Aguiar, the estate of* 

 the Capitam-mor with whom I had travelled to 

 Bom Jardim ; and on the following morning 

 proceeded through several sugar plantations. 

 We rested at mid-day at Purgatorio, a smalt 

 cotton and mandioc plantation, but we could 

 not purchase any thing of which to make a din- 

 ner, and therefore, as was usual on such occa- 

 sions> we smoked in place of eating. When 

 the sun had declined a little, we again set forth. 

 A few of the sugar-plantations through which 

 we passed in the afternoon were in a decayed 

 state. We stopped at a cottage, and begged 

 the owner to sell us a fowl, but she refused ; — 

 we had not eaten any thing this day. I was 

 loath so to do, but I could not avoid saying that 



