TRAVELS

IN

BRAZIL.

BY

HENRY KOSTER.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1816.

[ii]

Printed by A. Strahan,
New-Street-Square, London.

[iii]

TO

ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ.

POET LAUREATE,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, AND OF THE ROYAL SPANISH
ACADEMY OF HISTORY,

THESE TRAVELS

ARE INSCRIBED

By HENRY KOSTER,

IN

MEMORIAL

OF

AFFECTIONATE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE.

PREFACE.

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DURING 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 informationwhich 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 description will be regardedas of little importance. I have had the advantageof Mr Southey’s advice and extensive library. I haveto thank Dr. Traill for his aid in preparing the Appendix;though as he did not see the whole of it, if thereare any errors they must be attributed to me, not tohim. The drawings for the plates were executed by anear relative, from very rough sketches of my own, assisted[vi]by description. The outline of the map is takenfrom Mr. Arrowsmith’s large map of South America;and the names and situations of some places are corrected,and others are inserted from my own knowledge.The plan of the harbour of Pernambuco was furnishedto me by an English gentleman resident at Recife, who isindefatigable in the search of whatever may contribute tothe increase of knowledge.

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