THE DA FRANCA FAMILY. 
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speak French as fluently as their own tongue. 
They are a party of fourteen, — Monsieur and 
Madame, their eldest son and his wife, two 
young ladies, and six young children. Their 
good bonne , old Jacinthe, is the thirteenth, and 
accompanying them is Monsieur Fontes, a naval 
officer going to command the Government vessel 
which rides in the Bay of Timor. 
