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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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL BY HENRY ROSTER. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1816. Primeil b» A. Strahaii,New-Street-Square, L«mloii. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. POET LAUREATE^ MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, AND OF THE ROYAL SPANISHACADEMY OF HISTORY. THESE TRAVELS ARE INSCRIBED By HENRY KOSTER, MEMORIAL AFFECTIONATE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE. PREFACE. TOURING my residence in Brazil, I had no intentionof publishing any account of what I had seen andheard in that country. Some time after my return toEngland, I was encouraged to put together the inform-ation which I might be able to impart. The reader willbe more disposed to excuse what defects he may find,when he is informed that I went out young, that I did notgather any knowledge of the country in a systematicmanner with the idea of giving it to the public, and thatthe idiom of a foreign language is perhaps more familiarto me than that of my own. But among judiciousreaders the style of works of this dtravelsinbrazil00kost

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