PROVINCE OF SEREGIPE D' EL REY. 



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The women labour daily in the manufacture of earthenware, which they dry or 

 complete on Saturday evening, with a large fire upon a piece of ground appro- 

 priated to the purpose. The husbands hunt, fish, or plant some raandioca, 

 according as their caprice dictates, loitering about the greater part of their time, 

 and consuming in cachassa (spirit) the main portion of the product of the 

 labour of their industrious wives. In the vicinity of this parish were found, a 

 few years ago, bones of a vast size ; the species of animal which afforded them 

 are extinct. 



Lagarto, situated in a plain seventy miles to the west of the capital, is a 

 middling town, and famous for its quarry of flint stone. It has a church dedi- 

 cated to Our Lady of Piedade, (Piety.) In its environs are raised cattle, cot- 

 ton, mandioca, &c. ; and in its district is the famous Campo of Creoilo, eight 

 miles in extent, affording pasturage for numerous herds of cattle, and where 

 are many emu-ostriches and seriemas, with other birds. 



Thomar, antecedently Geru, well situated in a flat district, and enjoying a 

 salubrious atmosphere, with good water, has a handsome church dedicated to 

 Nossa Senhora do Socorro, which belonged to the Jesuits. It is five miles 

 from the Rio Real ; and the inhabitants, principally Indians, cultivate cotton, 

 legumes, and mandioca. They always select a white man and an Indian for 

 judges. 



The distinguished and considerable arraial of Laranjeiras, (Orange Groves,) 

 most advantageously situated upon the left bank of the river Cotindiba, and 

 eight miles above its confluence with the Seregipe, is not yet a parish, but in 

 time it most probably will become one of the principal towns of the province. 

 Large sumacas visit it for cargoes of sugar, cotton, hides, and legumes. 



In the district of the town of St. Amaro, about eight miles to the north of it, 

 is the arraial of Nossa Senhora of Rozario, which derived its name from a 

 chapel of this name, agreeably situated near the small river Ciriri, traversed by 

 a road conducting to the port of Moruim, and which is one of the most fre- 

 quented in the country. 



Besides the parochials of the towns mentioned, there are only three parishes : 

 Our Lady of Socorro, (Succour,) filial of the capital ; Our Lady of Campos 

 do Rio Real, filial of the town of Lagarto; and St. Gon^alo do Pe do 

 Banco. 



Upon the coast of this province there are no capes, islands, or ports, 

 excepting those witliin the rivers, the bars of which are generally more or 



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