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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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y every thingfor us. The late governor, Amaro Joaquim, brought the captaincy intogreat order, by his necessary severity. A custom prevailed, of per-sons walking about the town at night in large cloaks, and crape overtheir faces ; thus concealed, to carry on their irregular practices.The governor, not being able to discover who these persons were, gaveorders one night for the patrole to take into custody all who were sodressed; this was done, and some of the principal inhabitants werefound the next morning in the guard-house. A man of the name ofNogueira, the son of a black or mulatto woman, and of one of the firstmen in the captaincy, had made himself much dreaded by his outrageousproceedings ; he had carried froiu their parents houses, the daughtersof some persons of respectability in the captaincy, murdering the receives this general name. Thus, the whole of the country between Rio Grande andPernaiba is called Sertam. Pernaiba is a small province, situated between Seara andMavanham.
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RETURN TO GOIANA. 53 friends and relatives who opposed his entrance. The man was at lasttaken ; Amaro Joaquim would have had him executed, but he foundthis was not to be done, from the interest which the family made forhim, and therefore ordered him to be flogged. Nogueira said, thatbeing hal^ ajidalgo, a nobleman, this mode of punishment could not bepractised upon him. The governor then ordered that he should beflogged upon only one side of his body, that his Jida/go side might notsuffer, desiring Nogueira to say which was his Jidalgo side. He wasaccordingly punished in this manner, and after remaining some timein prison, was sent to Angola for life. The city of Paraibastill enjoyed the good effects of Amaro Joaquims strict government. I was acquainted with him at Pernambuco, before I set off on thisjourney ; his appearance and his conversation both bespoke a man ofsuperior abilities. When I saw him in Recife, he was on his way toPiauhi, of which captaincy he had been appointed gover

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