TO CARAVELLAS, &C. 



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away. It is the entrance to a fine and pretty considerable lake called 

 Lagoa d'Arara, which is encompassed all round by woody mountains. 

 It was about a quarter of a league up the lagoa that the ouvidor had 

 just begun to found the establishment of the minister at Morro 

 d'Arara; timber had already been felled, and some huts built. The 

 ouvidor received us politely, and I immediately made arrangements 

 for remaining some months in this solitary wilderness. 



