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PROVINCE OF PORTO SEGURO. 



without any change of their rude and native dress, the peculiarity of which 

 consisted in their bodies being dressed or ornamented with feathers, and their 

 lips, noses, and ears distorted with immense pendants ; their usual weapons of 

 defence, the bow and arrow, added to the interest which their appearance ex- 

 cited. 



The name of Porto Seguro, (Secure Port,) given to the bay where the dis- 

 covering armada anchored, also soon became common to the anchorage place 

 of the river Buranhen, with the establishment of the colony which C. Jaques 

 planted upon its margin, in the place where the principal or high part of the 

 capital is now situated. It soon after became the factory also for the Brazil 

 wood, 



Pedro do Campo Tourinho, its fii-st donatory, after having sold all he 

 possessed, for the purpose of transporting himself, his wife, Ignez Femandes 

 Pinta, one son, called Fernam do Campo Tourinho, and various families who 

 agreed to accompany him, arrived safe in the port of the factory. Not one of 

 the other donatories experienced so prosperous a disembarkation. His colony 

 was a considerable augmentation of that of C. Jaques, or the factory, where 

 he found many countrymen, some of whom had been more than thirty years in 

 the country, with their half Indian progeny, called Mamalucos, living in full 

 harmony with the aborigines. 



In a few years he found himself in a considerable and flourishing town. 

 Besides the town of Santa Cruz he founded that of St. Amaro, and other 

 aldeias, with which the establishment was greatly increased, and before his 

 death had acquired a very flourishing state. 



The town of St. Amaro, any vestige of which can scarcely at present be 

 discovered, near the morro crowned with a hermitage of Our Lady d' Ajuda, 

 three miles to the south of Porto Seguro, was demolished by the ferocious 

 Abatyra Indians in the year 1564. 



The town of St. Cruz, which was commenced upon Cabralia Bay, (Bay of 

 Cabral,) was removed by its inhabitants near to the river Joao de Tyba, in 

 consequence of its more favourable soil. 



The first donatory was succeeded by his said son, who did not live to enjoy 

 it long. To Fernam do Campo Tourinho succeeded his sister, Leonor do Campo 

 Tourinho, widow of Gregorio de Pesqueira, to whom the king confirmed the 

 capitania by letter of the 30th of May, 1556. Two months afterwards she 

 sold it, by permission of the Sovereign, to the Duke d' Aveiro, Don John de 

 Lancastre, to whom the King, in the same law, granted licence, at his death, 



