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STAY AT CAPITANIA 



settled at St. Agostinho about forty families who came from the 

 Azores, principally from Terceira, St. Michael, and a few from Fayal. 

 These people, who live in great poverty, bitterly complain of their 

 wretched condition ; splendid promises having been made to them, but 

 not performed. 



We should have been very glad to fix our abode at Coroaba, but 

 the impossibility of finding accommodations there for our numerous 

 train obliged us to remain for the present at Barra de Juc{i. 



Many things of which we stood in great need, and which we ex- 

 pected at Capitania, (so the country about Espirito Santo is called,) 

 had been sent to Caravellas, a circumstance which occasioned our 

 company no small embarrassment. In order to remedy it, Mr. Frey- 

 reiss and myself resolved to go immediately to Caravellas, and arrange 

 matters there. Lightly equipped, and accompanied by some well- 

 armed attendants on horseback, we left Barra de Juc6 on the 19th 

 of December : the part of our train which remained behind, went 

 meanwhile to Coroaba to follow their employment there. We might 

 have performed the same journey in a much shorter time by sea; but 

 a voyage along the coast in small inconvenient vessels, and in stormy 

 tempestuous weather, is not very agreeable. 



We proceeded to Pedra de Agoa, a single house upon an eminence 

 on the river, in order to have our four saddle and two baggage mules 

 conveyed over the river Espirito Santo. Directly opposite to us, on 

 one of the mountain-ridges upon the other side, we saw the remark- 

 able rock of Jucutucoara. This crag, resembling the Dent de Jaman 

 in the Pays de Vaud, strikes the eye at a distance ; it is placed on 

 gentle verdant eminences, which are partly covered with small thick- 

 ets. Before it, nearer to the river, lies the pleasant fazenda of 

 Rumao ; in front of which the Island of Pigeons (Ilha das Pombas) 

 divides the glassy surface of the river. The prospect from the eminence 

 on this side over the beautiful river, where some lanchas and fishing- 



