CONTENTS. 



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BOOK IV. 

 CHAPTER 1. 

 Stay in the city of Villa Rica. Page 177— 206. 



Topography of the city. — Population. — Trade. — 

 Climate. — Diseases. — Occurrence of almost all metals 

 in Minas Geraes. — Ribeirao do Oiro Preto. — Gold mines 

 in the Morro of Villa Rica. — The various methods of 

 gold-washing. — The gold smelting house. — Gold bars. 



— Annual amount of gold. — Population of Minas Gerae's. 



— Indians of the Province. — Description of the formation 

 of iron-stone flotz, quartz- and iron mica-slate, and clay- 

 slate. — Comparison with similar formations in Bavaria. 



CHAPTER II. 



Journey from Villa Rica to the Coroados Indians 

 on the Rio Xipoto. - Page 207 — ^66. 



The city of Mariana. — Bishoprics in Brazil. — Passage 

 of the projection of the Itacolumi and of the Rio Mainarde. 



— Junction of the Rio Turvo and the Rio Piranga near S. 

 Anna dos Ferros. — Boundary of the campos. — Entrance 

 into the primeval forests. — Beginning of the granite form- 

 ation of the Serra de S. Geraldo. — First appearance of an 

 Indian family in the forest. — Arrival at the Presidio of 

 S. Joao Baptista. — Office of the Portuguese directors of 

 the Indians. — The ipecacuanha. — The pot tree. — Ar- 

 rival at the fazenda of Guidowald on the Serra de On^a. — 

 Arrival of a horde of Coropos, — Domestic arrangements 



