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to pass the night. On the following day, the road 

 still led through thick forests to Sitio, a considerable 

 sugar manufactory, where they chiefly make loaves 

 of brown sugar (rapadura), which is generally 

 taken in the interior with water. In the little village 

 of Santa Rita we liad at length passed through 

 every danger, and could congratulate ourselves on 

 travelling again in pleasant campos, and among 

 more human countenances. Near Oiro Fino, we 

 turned into the road, which we had taken on our 

 journey hither, and, on the 21st of April, returned 

 safely, by way of Mariana, to Villa Rica. 



NOTE TO CHAPTER II. 



The first bishopric in Brazil was founded at Bahia 

 in the year 1522, and raised to the rank of an archbishopric 

 in the year 1667. The bishoprics of Rio de Janeiro and 

 Pernanibuco, which were founded at a later period, as also 

 those of Angola and S. Thome, in Africa, were placed 

 under it as suffragans. The bishopric of Maranhao, from 

 which, under John V., the bishopric of Para was separated 

 and made independent of it, remained under the arch- 

 bishopric of Lisbon, on account of the difficulty of the 

 navigation between Maranhao and Bahia. In the year 

 1744 the new bishoprics of Mariana and S. Paulo, and the 

 two extensive prelacies of Goyaz and Matto-grosso, were 

 detached from the diocese of Rio de Janeiro. 



