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numeroias there, and fome of them of good Credit 

 and Circumftances. The Women (not unlike the 

 Mulatto Generation every where elfe) are fond of 

 Strangers not only the Courtezans, whofe Inte- 

 reft may be fuppofed to wind up their Affections, 

 but alfo the marry ed Women who think them- 

 felves obliged, when you favour them with the 

 Secrecy of an Appointment • but the Unhap- 

 pinefs of purfuing Amours, is, that the gene- 

 ral lity of both Sexes are touched with veneral 

 Taints, without fb much as one Surgeon among 

 them, or any Body skilled in Phyfick. to cure or 

 palliate the progreffive Mifchief : The only Per- 

 son pretending that Way, is an Irlfj Father, whole 

 Knowledge is all comprehended in the Virtues of 

 two or three Simples^ and thole, with the Salubrity 

 of the Air and Temperance, is what they depend on, 

 for fubduing the worlt of Malignity and it may 

 not be unworthy Notice, that tho' few are exemp- 

 ted from the Misfortune of a Running, Eruptions, 

 or the like, yet I could hear of none precipitated 

 into thofe deplorable Circumftances we lee common 

 in unskillful mercurial Procelfes. 



There are three Monafteries, md about fix 

 Churches, none of them Rich or Magnificent, un- 

 lefs one dedicated to St. Antonio^ the Patron of 

 their Kingdom, which fnines all over with exqui- 

 Jite Pieces of Paint and Gold. 



The Export of Brafd (befides Gold)is chiefly Su- 

 gars and Tobacco • ^the latter arefent off in Rowls 

 of a Quintal Weight, kept continually moiftened 

 with MulofTus, which, with the Soil it fprings from, 

 imparts a ftrong and peculiar Scent, more fenfi- 

 ble in the Snuff made from it, which tho' under 

 Prohibition of importing to Lisbon^ fells here at 

 ^ /. pr 1. as the Tobacco does at about 6 Millraies 

 a Rowl. The fineft of their Sugars fells at ?>s.fer 

 Roove, and a fmall ill tafted Rum drawn from 



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