130 THE BRAZILS. 
aggeraied ; for, in the course of a three weeks' residence, in 
which we visited every quarter of the town and its neighbour- 
hood, we saw nothing that could warrant any such conclu- 
sion ; and I should rather be inclined to think that the whole 
force of the Brazils, from one extremity to the other, did 
not amount in regular troops to more than ten thousand 
men. 
