Travels in the Interior of Brazil
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Travels in the Interior of Brazil, by George Gardner, carries the title-page words "principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841." The title page names the author as George Gardner, M.D., F.L.S., superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Ceylon. The text says the population of Rio consists principally of Portuguese and their descendants, both white and coloured.
The text says those only born in the country are styled Brazilians, and that ever since its independence as an empire in 1820 a very bad feeling has existed between them and those who are natives of Portugal. The text tells of a female slave, about thirty-two years of age and the mother of four children, who was bitten on the right hand, between the bones of the fore-finger and thumb, by a Jararáca. The text records that in the year 1836 a plant in one of the hot-houses in the botanic garden at Liège produced fifty-four flowers, which had been artificially fecundated.
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- Author
- George Gardner
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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