VOYAGE 



TO 



PERFORMED 



BY ORDER OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, 



IN THE 10688 



YEARS 1817 AND 1818, IN THE 



W 



BY H. M.^BRACKENRIDGE, ESQ. 



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SECRETABY TO THE MISSIOIT. 



" The glimmerings which reach us from South America, enable us only to see 

 'ts inliabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery, super- 

 1..10I1, and ignorance. Whenever they shall be able to rise under this weight, 

 and to show themselves to the rest of the world, they will probably show tha 

 thry are like the rest of the world." — jefferson's soTiis on vibgiwia. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 



VOL. L 



'Baltimore: 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 



JOHN D. TOY, PKINTER. 

 1819. 



