ting under a tree, apparently insensible from illness. I spoke to him in French, and in English; but he took no notice. Presently a young man and a young lady appeared, to whom I spoke in French, and was very politely desired to sit down at a little table, which was standing under a large space before the house, like a verandah. They then brought me oranges, and a small red acid fruit, the name of which I asked, but cannot recollect. The young man sat opposite, conversing about Cambridge: He had been educated in a Portuguese University. Almost immediately, on finding I was of Cambridge, he invited me to come, when I liked, to his house. A slave, after bringing the fruit, was sent to gather three roses for me: the master then walked with me round the garden, and shewed me among the rest, the coffee plant: when I left him he repeated his invitation. Thus did the Lord give his servant favor in the eyes of Antonio Joseph Corre."

Nov. 13. "This morning there was a great storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, which awoke me.-I got up, and prayed.-O when the last great thunder echoes from pole to pole, I shall be in earnest, if not before."

Nov. 14. "Sennor Antonio received me with the same cordiality: he begged me to dine with him. I was curious and attentive to observe the difference between the Portuguese manners and ours: there were but two plates laid on the table, and the dinner consisted of a great number of small mixed dishes,

following one another in quick succession; but none of them very palatable. In the cool of the evening, we walked out to see his plantation: here every thing possessed the charm of novelty. The grounds included two hills, and a valley between them.— The hills were covered with cocoa-nut trees,bananas, mangos, orange and lemon trees, olives, coffee, chocolate, and cotton plants, &c. In the valley was a large plantation of a shrub or tree, bearing a cluster of small berries, which he desired me to taste. I did, and found it was pepper. It had lately been introduced from Batavia, and answered very well. It grows on a stem about the thickness of a finger, to the height of about seven feet, and is supported by a stick, which, at that height, has another across it for the branches to spread upon. Slaves were walking upon the ground: watering the trees, and turning up the ground; the soil appeared very dry and loose. At night, returned to the ship in a country boat, which are canoes made of a tree hollowed out, and paddled by three men."

Nov. 18. "Went ashore at six o'clock, and found that Sennor Antonio had been waiting for me two hours. It being too late to go into the country, I staid at his house till dinner. He kept me too much in his company, but I found intervals for retirement. In a cool and shady part of the garden, near some water, I sat and sang-O'er the gloomy hills of darkness.' I could read and pray aloud, as there was no fear of any one understanding me. In the

afternoon, we went in a palanquin to visit his father. Reading the eighty-fourth Psalm, 'O how amiable are thy tabernacles,' this morning in the shade-the day when I read it last under the trees with *** was brought forcibly to my remembrance, and produced some degree of melancholy. Of this I was thinking all the way I was carried; and the train of reflections into which I was led, drew off my attention from the present scene. We visited, in our way, a monastery of Carmelites: in the church belonging to it, my friend Antonio knelt some time, and crossed himself: I was surprised, but said nothing. At his father's house, I was described to them as one who knew every thing-Arabic, Persian, Greek, &c.; and all stared at me as if I had dropped from the skies. The father, Sennor Dominigo, spoke a little Latin. A priest came in, and as it was the first time I was in company with one, I spoke to him in Latin, but he blushed, and said that he did not speak it. I was very sorry I had undesignedly put him to pain. Had a great deal of conversation with Antonio afterwards on England, and on religion. He had formed such an idea of England, that he had resolved to send his son to be educated there.-A slave in my bed-room washed my feet. I was struck with the degree of abasement expressed in the act, and as he held the foot in the towel, with his head bowed down towards it, I remembered the condescension of the blessed Lord. May I have grace to follow such humility!”

Nov. 19.-"Early after breakfast went in a palanquin to Sennor Dominigo's; and from thence, with him, two or three miles into the country. At intervals, I got out and walked. I was gratified with the sight of what I wanted to see; namely, some parts of the country in its original state, covered with wood: it was hilly but not mountainous. The luxuriance was so rank, that the whole space, even to the tops of the trees, was filled with long stringy shrubs and weeds, so as to make them impervious, and opaque. The road was made by cutting away the earth on the side of the hill, so that there were woods above and below us. The object of our walk was to see a pepper plantation made in a valley on a perfect level. The symmetry of the trees was what charmed my Portuguese friends: but to me, who was seeking the wild features of America, it was just what I did not want.-The person who shewed us the grounds, was one that had been a major in the Portuguese army, and had retired on a pension. The border consisted of pine apples, planted between each tree: the interior was set with lemon trees, here and there, between the pepper plants. We were shewn the root of the mandioc, called by us tapioca: it was like a large horse radish: the mill for grinding was extremely simple: a horizontal wheel, turned by horses, put in motion a vertical one; on the circumference of which was a thin brazen plate, furnished on the inside like a

nutmeg grater: a slave held the root to the wheel, which grated it away, and threw it in the form of a moist paste into a receptacle below: it is then dried in pans, and used as a farina with meat. At Sennor Antonio's, a plate of tapioca was attached to each of our plates. Some of the pepper was nearly ripe, and of a reddish appearance: when gathered, which it is in April, it is dried in the sun. In our way to the old major's house, we came to a small church, on an eminence, on a plot of ground surrounded by a wall, which was for the purpose of burying the dead from a neighboring hospital, erected for those afflicted with a cutaneous disorder called the morphee. What this is I could not learn, as I saw none of the patients. The major had apartments at the hospital, of which he was inspector. In the church, all three knelt and crossed themselves as usual. I said nothing; but, upon this, a conversation began among them, chiefly from Sennor Antonio's mentioning to them my objections. The major spoke with a vehemence which would have become a better cause: Antonio acted as interpreter. By constant appeal to the Scripture on every subject, I gave immediate answers. The old man concluded the conversation by saying, he was sure I read the Scriptures, and therefore would embrace me, which he did after the manner of the country. Sennor Antonio told me plainly at last, which I had long been expecting to hear, that the prejudices of education were strong, and operated to keep his