34^ Notice qf Scientific Travellers in Brazil^ 
M. Freireis, at present in the service of the Prince Regent of 
Portugal. The journals of his travels are printing in a periodi- 
cal work entirely dedicated to Brazil, at present publishing in 
Germany. 
But the most remarkable modern traveller in Brazil, is the 
German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied. This en- 
terprising and distinguished person left Europe for Brazil in the 
month of June 1815. He Avent without parade or show, for the 
principal companions of his journey were two men of humble but 
respectable stations in life ; the one was the gardener Simonis, a 
man of sound judgment, great knowledge, uncommon activity, 
and fearless of danger ; and the other an experienced and ex- 
pert huntsman. To these, Avhen he landed in Brazil, the Prince 
added the necessary guides, huntsmen, and attendants. Thus 
accompanied, he traversed the woods, and marshes, and moun- 
tains of a tract of Brazil, extending from south latitude 13° to 
S3°. For months at a time he Avas encamped in the midst of 
vast forests, sAvarming with musquitoes, and craAvling Avith ser- 
pents ; and frequently his party were weeks in cutting their 
way through forests hitherto untrodden by man. The Prince 
himself was not an idle or inactive spectator ; he directed all ; 
he was perpetually occupied in determining the numerous ob- 
jects he collected, or that were brought to him ; he was ever on 
the Avatch to notice and record the appearance, habits, and man- 
ners of the numerous remarkable animals that presented them- 
selves to his attention ; and he did not allow the various mag- 
nificent and beautiful forms of the vegetable Avorld to escape his 
penetrating glance. The appearance of the native tribes and 
their state of society, particularly of the cannibal Botocudos, af- 
forded him a most interesting field for observation. Our ad- 
miration of the perseverance of this intrepid traveller is in- 
creased, when it is known that the tremendous and almost in- 
cessant rains to Avhich he Avas exposed, did not for a moment ex- 
cite any hesitation as to the prosecution of the journey ; on the 
contrary, Aveek after Aveek, and month after month, suffering 
in a close, moist, and oppressive atmosphere, and tormented 
Avith vermin, he continued to traverse the marshes and deep 
and Avet forests of vast unknoAvn tracts. At night, after the fa- 
•tigues of the day, huts were to be erected, fires kindled, and he- 
