TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



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nuts, also tobacco, sugar, rum, and rice. Cabo 

 Frio sends tubs and casks made of the trunks of 

 large fig-trees {gamelleiras)^ and, as well as the 

 neighbouring island Ilha Grande, also lime of cal- 

 cined shells or rocks. Ilha Grande, having excel- 

 lent materials, furnishes extremely good pottery. 

 The trade with Pernambuco and Bahia is not 

 inconsiderable. From Bahia, Rio receives tobacco, 

 slaves, millstones, tucum (thread made of the fibres 

 of the palm), cocoa-nuts, articles from Guinea and 

 Europe ; from Pernambuco, salt, saltpetre, and also 

 European articles. Buenos Ayres and Monte 

 Video supply the market of Rio de Janeiro with 

 hides, leather, ox horns, tallow, dried salt meat, 

 and wheat flour. This coasting trade is principally 

 carried on in small one or two masted ships, and 

 keeps up a constant intercourse between the whole 

 Brazilian coast and the capital. From the mouth 

 of the La Plata to Rio, the voyage is generally 

 completed in twenty-two to thirty days, from 

 S. Catherine and Rio Grande do Sul in fifteen to 

 six and twenty days, from Porto Seguro in eight 

 to fifteen, from Bahia in twelve to twenty, accord- 

 ing as the wind blows along the coast from south 

 or north, which depends on the position of the sun, 

 Maranhao and Para export their productions direct 

 without farther intercourse with Rio de Janeiro. 



The trade by land, too, is very extensive between 

 Rio and the neighbouring provinces, especially 

 with S. Paulo and Minas, to which there are toler- 



