CHAPTER III. 



JOURNEY FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO CAPE FRIO. 



Pray a Grande — St. Gonzalves — River Guajintibo — Serra de Inua — Lake 

 and Freguesia de Marica — Gurapina — Fonta Ncgra — Sagoarema — Lake 

 Araruama — »S'^. Pedro dos Indios — Cape Frio. 



After we had made the final arrangements at St. Christopher, a 

 small town in the neighbourhood of Rio, our beasts were put on board 

 a large bark. It occasioned us infinite trouble before we could in- 

 duce these proverbially obstinate animals to leap into the vessel, but 

 having at length succeeded in this operation, we sailed on the 4th of 

 August, and crossed the great bay of Rio, to the village of Praya 

 Grande, where we landed at midnight. All the inhabitants had 

 retired to rest, but we saw some negroes, who had taken up their 

 lodging for the night on the bare sand, in the open air : a small fire 

 diffused a scanty warmth, and their naked bodies were merely covered 

 with a thin cotton cloth, which could afford but very little protection 

 against the copious dew then falling. We immediately proceeded to 

 a sort of inn, the landlord of which, wrapped in his cloak, and still 

 half asleep, opened the door. It became necessary to remain here 

 the whole of the next day, because our tropa (the name given to a 

 number of beasts of burden that travel together) could not be landed 

 till late in the day, owing to the shallowness of the water. 



