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sea coast, he allowed this man to remain, on account 

 of his having intermarried and having a family. The 

 advantages of this establishment were such, that per- 

 mission was soon after given to others to settle here, 

 and as the adventurers intermarried with the natives, 

 their numbers increased rapidly. Romalho also al- 

 lied himself with one of the chief of the Goaynazes by 

 marrying his daughter; for it seems he had conformed 

 to the Indian custom of polygamy. A mixed race 

 was formed, possessing a compound of civilized and 

 uncivilized manners and customs. The Jesuits soon 

 after established themselves with a number of Indians 

 they had reclaimed, and exerted a salutary influence 

 in softening and harmonizing the growing colony. In 

 1581, the seat of government was removed from St. 

 Vincent on the coast to St. Pauls; but its subjection 

 £o Portugal was little more than nominal; cut of from 

 all communication, and almost inaccessible, but little 

 notice was taken of it. The mixture produced an im- 

 proved race, "the European spirit of enterprise,'^ says 

 Southey, "developed itself in constitutions adapted to 

 the country." But it is much more likely, that the free 

 and popular government which they enjoyed, produc- 

 ed the same fruits here as in every other country; a 

 restless spirit of enterprise and emulation among each 

 other; the mother of great qualities, but without a well 

 ordered government, the good was not likely to out^^ 

 weigh the bad. They soon quarrelled with the Je- 

 suits, on account of the Indians whom they had reduc- 

 ed to slavery. The Jesuits declaimed against the prac^ 

 tice; but as there were now many wealthy families, 

 among the Paulistas, the greater part of whose for- 

 tunes consisted in their Indians, it was not heard with 



