32 MRST^MmSIOlSffiRY VOYAGE
■ were ordered to attend, at the Viceroy’s palace, there to anfwer to the
fame tiring o f interrogations,^ viz'. Whence we came ? whither
bound ? the nature o f Our-voyage ? and what political news: we had
to communicate f When the whole was noted, duplicates-written,
'•and ’tigned^by" uSs; * we- ^vêfd ïrifórtned that the papers-would be'fent
•to Lrfbon, and that fuch fcrutinies were the common pradRce ;o f the.
iColonyiff i f
• This cefemGnÿtbeîhg-'6ver-,' we bad leave to-go 'ón-fliore-when
'wè^pfefê^-tMiftMvëi^âkifa^cafe alwa^is to pift^$blSJSr$ii fhëheâî
- b e f ö r e ? ï h ë ^ ü f dongÈSé ; arid as foon -as -we landed, another
“^©fildi’ri^up-iö^ ^fidt^Sd .ufe'ïÉöróügh the town, àbiding clofefb^lhs
till we returned again to the boat’.' From Monday tilfSSturday we
-were employed refitönghöur rigging1, watering our- fhip, and procuring'liveftoc
k, wine; &c. for fea ftore ; feveral forts o f feeds and
•plants were alfo got bn board; fuch as it Wasfuppofed might iflomrifh
-and foe •ufeful,ar©t^eite.V ^
' ' On -'Sàturdây ihb i-çtfo, "ST four in the’' morifi&gyi wb rinmoôred;
and with the mafter-attendant on board took the ihip nearer to'the
‘harbour’s mouth, that w e might be in readinefs to embrace the firft
heading breeze to fail.
About «neon the fea wind fet in with a thick fog ; in the afternoon
both boats .were employed to bring from the jfhare a variety o f
things which were ftill unavoidably there.
20tli. Atfeven in the morning w e weighed with a light breeze in ötir
ffavour; fout by thé time we got abreaft o f fort- Sânta: Crüz'Çtt
changed agâinft us : however, we kept plying to windward, apd
after we had made a few tacks, the mafter-attendânt took his leave.
A t three P .M . we paffed between Razor ifland and Round ifland,when
<& frelh breeze fpringing up, -we were veryfoon out o f fight o f land.
The city o f Rio de Janeiro is at prefent' the capital o f Brazil, and,
fince the difcovery o f the diamond mines in its v icin ity ,,has been
the refidence o f the viceroy. It has for its' defence cannon planted
.upon the tops o f the eminences., which command its entrance;
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be (ôfeenfêtî v^ y 'eXce^'tfa'ritaS they He
confidèrably diftant from each other : therefore, ■ ®hoàghngan)Smiayî be
f^ i f jvyf®^err‘'5wà-y--Ÿo# ’tmmy o ^ V jteêrWh&''place vis?*rçafe|in r reality
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and their nuhïbeÿfin« thetcit^ated p birbs- g®dsttexc^éd.' t«yoi|&mared
thbûfandis'^ilMidlMoîdsj monaftti fdh, ç iSi ont^-jbE^iyfoSt,’s pal.utg the"
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afei'nWow, llfot ftrkghtpÊ’d^feg-iÆlgrih IPteM windows and the upper
part -‘o^ÉiaiÿA&Mfihèmgjlattie'efl with- prahrifo d hOrofis each' -other,, arid
.^heiri women
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riu ih f to a, rt tpc^ahU- in^rcJi mj-^aftordcd ^piK jijftanc^. t On receipt
o f tfoMe.ttpfche ^prehêd^ h is^ ^d iAS^ J 0- .advance ^ h a t {jams the cap-
t il mm îg ht hau. .arid.^hafijift him in <wjjailier. \\ ayj: >hjit
btipi.ç imC'^aJd cjJjLigc hnji, hc fajd, hc muil ua it^o n thevyjêeroy
witKthfe, MjfejKiSlü
.wTfojs capital appefo-kto exceed a^pspüli places jn the‘.parade o f
tasdigicrttyf At itiï#d®rner o f every f iiu t js -a figure oP.oui^.iviOur and
the V i r ^ i f ^ A f a f i n a riichëf^oÿ-kitM'b^eli^Bch.rdV^'ith ‘a^rtir-
ta ir i^ h^ l^ ^m d o ^ h e fiS S / ii? ;in the nipît^ ,éoeolî&-h|è!hghteid'j; and
thW^^îplè5 tb ‘Sd^SR^^Mdftdevot-ibrîs; ‘aridddib wHolchfigHî
long the v o ic eb f’ their chanting*5® thefe images m a y be heard. Even
the common beggar makes à . trade o f religion, b y çârrying a little
ci'ucifix at :;his bread:, which I fuppofe he may buy fof a penny ; at
'this the poorer fbrt; crofs themfelvcs, and the- beggar bieifing them,
jriufi: be paid for his benedidtion as well as'the pope.
The eftablifhed port charges paid1 by all merchantfhips are, on
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