DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES 



THE FIRST VOLUME. 



VILLA VELHA Frontispiece. 



A village consisting of scattered houses, a league to the 

 south-west of the Villa do Rio de Contas in the interior of 

 the capitania of Bahia. The grotesque mica-slate moun- 

 tain, Serra do Ilio de Contas, or de Brumado, forms the 

 back-ground of this luxuriant landscape. In the fore- 

 ground are palms, calabash and gum anime trees [Carica, 

 Papaja, and Hymenea Courbaril); and negro slaves are 

 employed in gathering cotton, 



A BOTOCUDO and A COROADO To face page 143. 



We are obliged to His Serene Highness Prince Maximilian 



- of Neuwied for this portrait of a Botocudo. 



The Coroado is the portrait of our attendant, Custodio, who 



accompanied us on a great part of our journey through 



the interior. See Vol. II. jyage 264. 



MANDIOCCA To face page 2^S, 



The farm of M. Von LangsdorfF at the foot of the Serra de 

 Estrella, the continuation of the Serra dos Orgaos ; on the 

 north side of the bay of Rio de Janeiro, and on the road 

 to Villa Rica, the capital of the capitania of Minas 

 Geraes. 



