INDIAN OBSTINACY. 



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Superintend some of the workmen. I stayed 

 only two days at Goiana, for I soon accomplished 

 the object of my journey, which was to obtain 

 twenty Indian labourers from Alhandra. My 

 return to Jaguaribe was by the usual road. 



The day after my arrival at my new home, I 

 rode to Recife, and had on the following day an 

 attack of ague. I had exposed myself lately too 

 much to the sun, and had been several times wet 

 through. The disorder left me in a fortnight ; 

 my horses were sent for, — they came, and I 

 set off for Jaguaribe; but in mid- way I was 

 drenched with rain, and reaching that place 

 much tired, went to sleep unintentionally in my 

 hammock, without changing my clothes. In the 

 morning I felt that the ague was returning, and 

 therefore ordered my horse and rode out to try 

 to shake off the attack, which the peasants say 

 it is possible to do. However, whilst I was talk- 

 ing with a neighbour, on horseback at his door, 

 the ague came on, and I was unable to return 

 to my own dwelling. 



The next day the Indians from Alhandra ar- 

 rived ; they had imbibed strange notions of the 

 riches of an Englishman ; and their captain told 

 me, that they knew I was very rich, and could 

 afford to give higher wages than any one else. 

 I tried to undeceive them in this respect, but all 

 to no purpose. I offered the usual rate of labour 

 in the country ; but their characteristic obstinacy 

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