TO CAPE FRIOe, 



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of lime and poplar-wood, and canoes are made of it. Here is also a 

 tree called jarraticupitai/a, with a spicy bark, which is a medicine of 

 the Indians ; jacaranda or rose-wood (mimosa), of a beautiful dark 

 brown, firm, heavy, useful to cabinet-makers, and having a faint but 

 agreeable smell of roses ; the white outside of the wood is not used, 

 only the internal heart : cuiranna (cerbcra or gardenia J, a very light 

 wood, of which plates and spoons are made, the bark of which yields 

 a milky juice; peroha, a hard, solid ship-timber, which is used by 

 the government, and therefore declared royal property ; canella (lau- 

 7'us), very aromatic, smelling like cinnamon ; ca'dbi ( mimosa), mojole, 

 sepepira, putumuju, called arariba, and other species. Here are like- 

 wise medicinal plants in abundance : of these I shall mention only a 

 few, such as the herva moeira do Sertam, which has the taste of 

 cloves; the Arabian cost us, which is used against the venereal dis- 

 ease ; various kinds of ipecacuanha, and the buta, which is said to l)e 

 a substitute for Peruvian bark, &c. 



After we had frequently hunted with the Indians in the neighbour- 

 hood of St. Pedro, we left them in the afternoon, and set out for 

 Cape Frio, about two leagues distant. A delay which was caused in 

 the way by one of the mules, gave us an opportunity to kill a mara- 

 cana, the bird described by the name of psittacus inacavuanna ; 

 whole flocks of them live in these forests, and fall upon the planta- 

 tions of maize near the dwellings of the Indians, where they often do 

 much damage. 



It was already late in the evening when we crossed the lake to 

 reach the Cape, and were received by Captain Carvalho in his house. 

 Cape Frio is the well-known promontory I have already mentioned ; 

 it is formed by high rocky mountains, before which lie some small 

 islands. Upon one of these in a bay near the coast a fort is erected. 

 A creek here penetrates into the land, forming a semicircle, upon the 

 banks of which lies the town of Cape Frio. This town, though small 



