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Identifier: travelsinbrazil00kost (find matches)
Title: Travels in Brazil
Year: 1816 (1810s)
Authors: Koster, Henry, 1793-ca. 1820
Subjects: Slavery -- Brazil Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
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tuals; sweetmeats, &c. were not forgotten. All this was for thedriver, and was repeated three times every day until the man re-ceived an order for his release. The Colonel Simplicio had been sent for by the governor toSt. Luiz. Had it not been for the circumstances in which he wasplaced, I should have gone down to his residence at Parnaiba; hehas there a most noble establishment, part of which consists of aband of musicians, who are his own slaves; some of them have beeninstructed at Lisbon and at Rio de Janeiro. It is through such menas these that improvements are to be expected. I likewise becameacquainted with a gentleman who had been imprisoned for a triflingbreach of some new port regulation. Any of his friends were allowedfree ingress to see him, and I passed some pleasant evenings withhim and other persons who were in the habit of assembling there;he was allowed two small rooms in the prison, and was confined inthis manner for several months. The Ouvidor of the province was
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THE FISHERMEN. I75 also suspended from exercising the functions of his office, was removedfrom St. Luiz, and imprisoned.in one of the forts. The Jtdz de Fora,the second judicial officer, performed for the time the duties of thesituation ; he was a Brazihan, and a man of independent character,who spoke and acted freely, notwithstanding the ostensible place heheld, and the danger of it under such a government. The masterof an English merchant ship, I was told, had been arrested for somebreach of port regulation, and was confined in a miserable dungeonfor three days. I heard many more stories of the same nature ; butthese will, I think, suffice to shew the state.of the city of St. Luiz atthe time and just before I visited that place. The governor was a very young man, and a member of one of thefirst noble families of Portugal*. There are few situations in whichit is so greatly in a mans power to be much beloved or much dis-liked as that of governor of a province in Brazil; in which a man

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