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how much he resembled his townsmen. After him came his son, an 

 overgrown gawky of seventeen, mounted on his white charger, dressed 

 in full uniform as a Cavalry -officer. He had been appointed second in 

 command over the troops of the district, and in that station had acquired 

 an ample stock of assurance, while he preserved in his manners all the 

 awkwardness of an ill-disciplined soldier. When he had retired I was so 

 pestered with other impertinent clowns that, to avoid them, I took 

 refuge in my bed-room, and eveil there was so incommoded as to be 

 obliged to turn out two of them, and to treat a third so roughly as 

 probably to fix, and leave behind me, some stigma on our national 

 character ; but they really would have tried the most patient, and roused 

 the meekest mind. 



From this general censure of the people of Queluz it is no more 

 than justice to exempt the man at whose house we lodged. He treated 

 us with great attention and civility ; and as there is more than one house 

 of public entertainment in the town, it is proper to add that he resides 

 directly opposite to the Pillar of Justice. Here this is surmounted by 

 a bust, having the head covered with a helmet, and, as if to show that 

 nothing can afford security from the hand of authority, when justly 

 offended, a sabre is struck across the head, down to the very ears, and 

 left sticking in the cloven iron and skull. 



We had now arrived by a North North-Easterly direction, twenty 

 miles nearer to our destination, and gained an additional elevation of 

 about four hundred feet. Notwithstanding this the sun at noon was 

 very hot, but the Thermometer was not at hand to ascertain the degree ; 

 at seven o'clock the next morning, in a close room, it stood at 57°. 



Among the uncommon objects of natural history, observed by us, 

 was the white Anou, a bird whose feathers are bearded, like those in 

 the tail of the Bird of Paradise. The more compact part of them is of 

 a dark brown colour, while the beard is of a light brown, approaching to 

 white, giving this general cast to the bird. The back is blue, the parts 

 about the joints of the wings a pure white, and the wing feathers a 

 shaded brown. The tail, v/hich is very long, contains four feathers on 



