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modation for the present. Some days afterwards, 

 we hired a small house in the suburb of St. Anna, 

 which we preferred on account of its elevated situa- 

 tion, on the declivity of some hills, and the prospect 

 which it afforded over Cape Corcovado. Our 

 books, instruments, and other effects, were convey- 

 ed to our new abode on the shoulders of negroes. 

 The officers at the custom-house made no difficulties, 

 and gave us no trouble, when they found that we had 

 come in the Austria frigate, and under the protec- 

 tion of his majesty the Emperor of Austria. In 

 general, many circumstances appeared to combine 

 to aid us novices in our first domestic arrangements 

 on American ground. To our great satisfaction 

 we soon met with the very obliging M. Von Langs- 

 dorff, the Prussian consul-general, who is well 

 known in the literary world by his account of the 

 voyage round the world, in which he accompanied 

 Commodore Krusenstern. He welcomed us with 

 the greatest cordiality ; and several of our German 

 fellow-countrymen, who had settled at Rio de Ja- 

 neiro with mercantile views, endeavoured to serve 

 us to the utmost of their power. Besides our com- 

 mon country, we were united with them by the 

 interest which they felt in the ample treasures of 

 nature with which they were so imperfectly ac- 

 quainted. In justice to our own feelings we must 

 gratefully mention the names of our worthy coun- 

 trymen, Messrs. Scheiner, Hindriks, Schimmel- 

 busch, Deusson, Frohlich, and Diirming. We 

 also received most friendly counsel in the regulation 



