PREFACE.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. RIO DE JANEIRO.
CHAPTER II. JOURNEY TO AND RESIDENCE IN THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER III. BAHIA AND PERNAMBUCO.
CHAPTER IV. ALAGOAS AND THE RIO SAN FRANCISCO.
CHAPTER V. CEARA. PERNAMBUCO TO CRATO.
CHAPTER VI. CEARA CONTINUED.
CHAPTER VII. CRATO TO PIAUHY.
CHAPTER VIII. OEIRAS TO PARNAGUA.
CHAPTER IX. PARNAGUA TO NATIVIDADE.
CHAPTER X. NATIVIDADE TO ARRAYAS.
CHAPTER XI. ARRAYAS TO SAN ROMAO.
CHAPTER XII. SAN ROMAO TO THE DIAMOND DISTRICT.
CHAPTER XIII. CIDADE DIAMANTINA TO OURO PRETO.
CHAPTER XIV. OURO PRETO TO RIO DE JANEIRO, AND SECOND JOURNEY TO THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER XV. MARANHAM, VOYAGE TO ENGLAND, CONCLUSION.
FOOTNOTES
TRAVELS
IN THE
INTERIOR OF BRAZIL.
THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS.
E Fry del. Reeve Lith.
TRAVELS
IN THE
INTERIOR OF BRAZIL,
PRINCIPALLY
THROUGH THE NORTHERN PROVINCES,
AND
THE GOLD AND DIAMOND DISTRICTS,
DURING THE YEARS 1836-1841.
BY
GEORGE GARDNER, M.D., F.L.S.,
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF CEYLON.
“A populous solitude of bees and birds,
And fairy-formed and many-colour’d things,
… the gush of springs,
And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend
Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings
The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend,
Mingling, and made by Love unto one mighty end.”
Childe Harold.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE,
KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
1849.
REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS,
KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
TO
SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER,
K.H., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.A., AND L.S.,
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY CÆSAR. LEOPOLD. NATURAL. CURIOSORUM, ETC., ETC.,
AND
Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew,
TO WHOM THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY IS SO MUCH INDEBTED, ALIKE FOR HIS LIBERAL PATRONAGE, AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO IT IN THE NUMEROUS AND VALUABLE WORKS WHICH HAVE ISSUED FROM HIS PEN,
THE FOLLOWING WORK,
CONTAINING THE NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS, WHICH, BUT FOR HIS KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT, COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN,
IS INSCRIBED
WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM,
BY HIS GRATEFUL FRIEND AND PUPIL,
GEORGE GARDNER.
