LEAVES JAGUARIBE. 



The mill was yet at work in September, when 

 the owner of the place applied to me to leave it, 

 as it was convenient to him to come down from 

 another plantation of which he was the owner, 

 and reside at Jaguaribe, from its vicinity to 

 Recife. I agreed to this, but did not wish that 

 he should remove until I was about to leave 

 Jaguaribe. However, one morning, a young 

 man who was related to, and employed by him, 

 came to my house, and told me, that by order 

 from his kinsman he had (accompanied by a 

 gang of negroes) taken possession during the 

 night of the cottage, which was situated upon 

 the shelf of the hill. I expressed my surprise at 

 this conduct, and said a good deal upon the 

 subject. He, of course, returned for answer, 

 that he had only acted according to the orders 



In the same work, I find the following manner of cure 

 from the bite of a snake, which will not however be very 

 generally adopted : — " Ceax qui ont assez de courage ou de 

 charitS pour sexposer a fair e cette cure se gargarisent bien la 

 bouche avec de V eau-de-vie ; et apres avoir scarifie' la place, Us 

 la succent de toute leu,r force, Us rejettent de terns en terns cc 

 quils ont da?is la bouche, et se la nettoyent et gargarisent ii 

 chaquefois, observant de presscr fortement avec les deux mainf 

 les environs de la partie blessee. On a vit de tres bans effets 

 de cette cure, mais elle est tr4s-d.angerev.se pour celui qui In 

 fait ; car s'il a la moindre ecorchure dans la bouche, ou qu'il 

 avale tant soit peu de ce qu'il retire, il peut s'attendre amourir 

 en peu de momens, sans que toute la medecine le puisse sauver" 

 Tom. i. p. 167- 



