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THE CAPIM RIVER. 
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in my collections, I proceeded up the west braneli of the 
river, called the Capim. My canoe was a very unsteady 
and top-heavy one, and soon after leaving the village a 
sudden squall nearly upset us, the water pouring in 
over the side, and it was with some difficulty we got the 
sail down and secm:ed the boat to a bush on the river’s 
bank till the storm had passed over. We went plea- 
santly along for two or three days, the country being 
prettily diversified with cane-fields, rice-grounds, and 
houses built by the early Portuguese settlers, with ele- 
gant little chapels attached, and cottages for the Negroes 
and Indians around, all much superior in appearance 
and taste to anything erected now. At length we 
reached Sao Joze, the estate of Senhor Calistro, to 
whom I brought letters of introduction. Pie received 
me very kindly, and on my telling him the purpose of 
my visit he invited me to stay with him as long as I 
liked, and promised to do all he could to assist me. He 
was a stout, good-humoured looking man, of not much 
more than thirty. He had recently built a rice-mill and 
warehouses, one of the best modern buildings I had seen 
in the country. It was entirely of stone ; the mill was 
approaehed by arches in the centre, and the warehouses, 
offices, and dwelling apartments were at the sides. Pdiere 
Avas a gallery or verandah on the first floor connecting 
the two ends of the building, and looking down upon 
the mill, with its great water-wheel in the centre, and 
out through the windows on to the river, and a hand- 
some stone quay which ran along the Avhole front of the 
building. It was all substantially constructed, and had 
cost him several thousand pounds. 
