NOTES ON BRAZIL. 



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The clown, with whom I had little patience, expressed his grati- 

 tude, and with great simplicity offered me two patacas, the usual 

 fee of a Surgeon, urging my acceptance of them by the common 

 notion, that if I received no pay my remedies could do no good. 

 The difficulty was easily overcome, for it was allowed, that naving 

 received the fee, I might do with it what I pleased, and the 

 woman had sense enough to receive it as a present for her child. 



Upon reaching the city, I was witness to one of those scenes which 

 sometimes occur in Brazil between the master and his slave, and evince 

 that the best emotions of the heart are not necessarily circumscribed by 

 the distinctions of rank, condition, or colour. The Negro who had 

 been appointed to attend me from St. John, expressed the high degree of 

 satisfaction which it would afford him to see again his young master, 

 and so frequently spoke of it as to show that it made the principal 

 subject of his meditations along the road. I was pleased, therefore, to 

 find that the man's regard met with a correspondent degree of ardent 

 affection, so ardent, indeed, as would be thought quite out of order if it 

 showed itself between many well educated masters and the well trained 

 servants of Europe, where nature is frequently lost in form, and the best 

 moments of hfe, the best feelings of the soul, are sacrificed to imaginary 

 proprieties. 



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