7 « 
The Pcidrao and Pinda. 
la Societe de Geographic a decerne le prix dans 
sa seance du 30 mars, 1832. 3 tomes. 8vo. 
Paris, 1832”). Dr. Gardner, in his Brazilian 
travels, gives an account of Douville’s murder, the 
consequence of receiving too high fees for medical 
attendance on the banks of the Sao Francisco. 
So life like are his descriptions of the country and 
its scenery, that no one in the factory would be¬ 
lieve him to have been an impostor, and the 
Frenchmen evidently held my objections to be 
“ founded on nationality.” The besetting sins of 
the three volumes are inordinate vanity and in¬ 
consequence, but these should not obscure our vision 
as to their solid and remarkable merits. Compare 
the picturesque account of Sao Paulo with those 
of the latest English travellers, and the anthro¬ 
pology of the people, their religion, their cere¬ 
monies, their magic, their dress and costume, their 
trade, their manufactures, their maladies (including 
earth-eating), their cannibalism, the condition of 
their women, and the necessity of civilizing them 
by education before converting them, all subjects 
of the highest interest, with that of Mungo Park, 
for instance, and we have a fair measure of the 
French travellers value. The native words in¬ 
serted into the text are for the most part given 
with unusual correctness, and the carping criticism 
which would correct them sadly requires correction 
itself. “ Thus the word which he writes mouloundu 
