DEPARTURE FROM BRAZILS. 
Prince with an unconcern bordering upon boldness, and spoke a lan¬ 
guage which would make one suppose that he had been bom in a land 
where liberty reigned in excess. But perhaps this unconcern towards 
a foreign Sovereign, was but a consequence of his excessive reverence 
lor his own. 
On our return from the audience, we found the Persian Ambassador’s 
retinue in a great fermentation, which had been excited by the quarrel 
of two of its members. A Portuguese lady had made them a present 
of a parrot, (a bird which, in Persian poetry, may be said to make 
almost as conspicuous a figure as the turtle-dove in ours,) and when 
they returned to their comrades, each claimed the distinction of the 
lady’s favour, and each the possession of the pledge. The quarrel of 
the gallants by degrees warmed the others ; one of whom, by way of 
ending the dispute, very calmly stepped aside and cut the parrot’s head 
off. The storm then fell upon him ; and it became so violent, that the 
Portuguese guards were at length brought in to quell it. As soon as 
the Ambassador came in, he punished the principal offenders, by causing 
them to be beaten before him ; and those who bad spoken their minds 
a little too unreservedly, he smote upon the mouth with a shoe, which 
in their idiom, they call kufsh khorden, eating shoe. One servant in¬ 
curred his master’s displeasure more than the others, because, during 
the investigation of the parrot cause, it was proved that he had accused 
the Ambassador of degrading the dignity of his Sovereign, and debasing 
the name of a Mussulman, by living so entirely in the company of 
Christians, drinking wine, and, doubtless, eating pork also. This per¬ 
son was sent in confinement on board the Lion, after having been abun¬ 
dantly beaten on the back with a stick, and on the mouth with a shoe 
heel. 
The Ambassadors embarked on the following day ; but owing to light 
winds, and strong tides, we were three days in getting fairly to sea, 
having been obliged to anchor several times at the entrance of the har¬ 
bour. On the 18th of October, we made the islands of Tristan d’Acunha, 
which were discovered by a Portuguese of that name, and afterwards 
explored by the Dutch and the French. .They consist of three islands. 
