i ^ CHAPTER XVI. 



RETURN TO RIO DE JANEIRO. 



CONGONHA AND BARBAZENA. 

 A. D. 1818. 



TRAVELLERS FROM PITANGUl'. CONTRABAND GUNPOWDER. BLACKSMITHS. RODEIRO. 



CHAPAOM. CONGONHA, OR CAANCUNHA. SPLENDID CHURCH THERE. MIRACU- 

 LOUS INTERPOSITION OF THE VIRGIN. LEPERS. SUA'-SUi'. BRAZILIAN ADMI- 

 RATION OF THE TASTE AND MANNERS OF FOREIGNERS. REFLECTIONS ON THE 



FORM OF THE COUNTRY. ST. JOZE. BARBAZENA. REGISTBO VELHO. BORDO 



DO CAMPO. JURUOCCA. THE RIO GRANDE'. MANTIQUEIRA. PEDRO ALVES. 



SINGULAR SNAKES. ST. VINCENTE. PATRULHA. B09INHA DO NEGRO. PARAHI- 



BU'NA. GOVERNO. 



TO proceed farther towards the North did not then suit the arrange- 

 ments which I had made, and having determined upon a route for my 

 return in some points different from that by which we had advanced, we 

 left Marianna, and proceeded towards the capital. 



We had not gone far when we met with a party of travellers, 

 consisting of a gentleman in a military habit, three ladies, and seven 

 slaves. The ladies were his wife and daughters, the former of whom 

 rode alone on one horse ; the two latter, though full grown, were 

 mounted together on another. All of them sat astride, and all were 

 equipped with shoes and stockings, — a circumstance by no means 

 common in the interior of Brazil. Nothing among their baggage 

 appeared so singular as the lading of one mule, which carried a 

 cumbrous bedstead, made of Jacaranda ; the tester being slung on one 



