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less dangerous, and afford passage only to sumacas. The men are of all 

 complexions. The Mesticos are the most robust : of this class was Christovam 

 de Mendonca, who, at the end of the year 1806, when he had completed 

 his one hundred and twenty-eighth year, still exercising the business of a 

 potter in the aldeia of Aracaju, near the mouth of the river Cotindiba, 

 gave a relation of the revolt alluded to at the commencement of this chapter, 

 and died two years afterwards. 



