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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land, I could not postpone my views forthis length of time, and therefore made enquiries among my friendsand acquaintance, and discovered that the brother of a gentlemanresident at Goiana, was about to set off for that place, and would,probably, from thence proceed further into the country, with someobject in view connected with trade. It was my intention to ad-vance as far as Seara. I applied to the governor for a passport, whichwas immediately granted without any difficulty. On the afternoon of the 19th October, 1810, some of my Englishfriends accompanied me to my cottage at the Cruz das Almas, thatthey might be present at my departure, in the course of the ensuingnight. Senhor Feliz, my companion, arrived in the evening, bring-ing with him his black guide, a freeman. Prepaiations were madefor proceeding upon our journey, and about one oclock, as the moonrose, we sallied forth. Senhor Feliz, myself, and my Englishservant John on horseback, armed with swords and pistols; the black 11
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JOURNEY TO GOIANA. 43 guide also on horseback, without saddle or bridle, carrying a blunder-buss, and driving on before him a baggage-horse, with a little mulattoboy mounted between the panniers. My English friends cheered us aswe left the Cruz, and remained in my quarters, the command of whichI had given up to one of them during my absence. That part of theroad which we traversed by moon-light I had already passed over ashort time before, and subsequently from frequent travelling, my ac-quaintance with it was such, that I might have become a guideupon it. We rode along a sandy path for three quarters of a league, untilwe began to ascend a steep hill, of which the sides and the flat sum-mit are covered with large trees, and thick brushwood growing be-neath them. The hamlet of Beberibe stands at the foot of the cor-responding declivity; to this place several families resort in thesummer, and a small rivulet runs through it, of which the water ismost beautifully clear. Half a league bey

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