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(falco Brasiliensis J, a handsome species of falcon. When we were 

 assembled on the north bank of the lagoa, we found ourselves in a 

 very unpleasant situation; for our mules, which were grazing, had 

 been enticed away by horses, and we remained the whole day exposed 

 to torrents of rain, till towards evening a fisherman appeared who 

 conducted us to his hut, where we waited for our strayed beasts. 

 We passed through a small thicket to the bank of the river Bar- 

 ganza, \vhich flows from the Lagoa Feia. Here were two wretched 

 fishermen's huts, in which we received a very cordial welcome. They 

 consisted merely of a roof of reeds, leaning against the ground, and 

 contained within two small divisions. Our numerous company could 

 not pass the night under cover, but only the Europeans, who were 

 less accustomed to the night air of Brazil. We lay, together with 

 the two families of the fishermen, on straw round the hut ; the fire 

 was in the middle ; and we were treated with baked fish and man- 

 diocca flour. 



The friendly attentions of these good people lessened the inconve- 

 nience, and made us in some measure forget the hardness of our 

 couch. In the hut in which I took up my lodging, the mistress was 

 a jolly, loquacious woman, with a rather sallow complexion, and 

 very lightly dressed, who, like most women of the lower classes in 

 Brazil, constantly had her tobacco-pipe in her mouth. The Brazili- 

 ans more commonly smoke segars, which are made of paper, and 

 carried behind the ear. This mode of smoking was not brought 

 by the Europeans to Brazil, but is derived from the Tupinambas, and 

 other tribes of the Indians of the coast. They used to wrap certain 

 aromatic leaves in a larger one, and lighted it at the end. The pipes 

 used by the fishermen, as well as in all Brazil, by the negroes in par- 

 ticular, and other persons of the poorer class, have a small bowl of 

 blackish burnt clay, and a thin smooth tube, made of the stalk of a 

 species of fern, which grows to a considerable height, ( samamhaya^) 



