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Hemisphere was made in that country • And a woman (though I surmiee a very 
unv^illing one) was at the bottom of it# fhen Francis I of Austria sent his 
daughter Leopoldina to Brazil to ni^rry the crown prince ( the man Ister known 
as the Liberator) he sent an honorary escort of scientists vvath ter. *rhis 
Francis was a grandson of Rfaria Iheresa and he f/as the grandfather of Maximilian 
the short-liYed '■emperor^* of Mexico anci of the late Francis Joseph of Austria • 
Francis I ?/as a patron of science on the side* Opportunism in politics seems 
to have been his principal occupation* In 1810 he gave his daughter Maria 
Louise to Napoleon, then at the height of his power; and in 1817, Napoleon bein 
down and ou%he gave his younger daughter Leopoldina to the royal family 4h^ 
had fled before Napoleon from Portugal to Brazil. Poor Leopoldina seems to haTS 
been as reluctant a bride as was i&rie Louise* She delayed her departure so lon^ 
that some of the eager scientists of the honorary escort set sail without her* 
Martius, the Bsvarian leader of the scic-^ntific expedition and some others set 
out for Bra2;il and an-'ived at Rio cie JaB3iro|Ln July 1817 • Leopoldina did not 
arrive until November. She lived but eight years longer. Dom Pedro, the l-ist 
emperor of Brezil,^,was her son. .^^-f" i/i ■ -./ . ^ ^£4 
^ 3^ Pdo the first of Kovemlber. I-feed seen pictures and read descrip- 
tions of Rio harbor but the reelity ^^k- almost overwhelming. As we entered 
the bay with peaks in all directions I hed the sensation of sailing into the 
tops of a mountain chain on a flood. Sugar Loaf rises e sheer IP.50 feet from 
the water. JisL-Jirst objective «/&s Pernambuco^« ships from 0. S. did not stop th 
£o,,X had. to m to Rio and then, up on a Dutch cof fee ship. 
