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About ten o'clock the Brazilian national air is played, and all disperse quietly and soberly to their homes. At the festival of Corpus Christi, there was a very pretty arrangement. The large green square of the Trinidade was lighted up all round with bonfires.
He told me his neighbours were a kindly-disposed and cheerful people, and that the onslaught of the Araras was provoked by a trader from Bara, who wantonly fired into a family of them, killing the parents, and carrying off their children to be employed as domestic servants. We remained nine days at the sitio of Senor John Trinidade.
Our helm was then put up, and we fell aboard the `Redoubtable, while the `Temeraire, Captain Blackwood, ranged up on the other side of her, and another French ship got alongside the `Temeraire. There we were all four locked together, pounding away at each other, while with our larboard guns we were engaging the `Bucentaur, and now and then getting a shot at the big Spaniard, the `Santissima Trinidade'. Meantime our other ships had each picked out one or more of the enemy, and were hotly engaged with them.
There was another visitor besides ourselves, a negro, whom John Trinidade introduced to me as his oldest and dearest friend, who had saved his life during the revolt of 1835. I have, unfortunately, forgotten his name; he was a freeman, and had a sitio of his own situated about a day's journey from this.
The `Captain' was instantly wore round, instead of tacking, according to a signal just then made by the admiral, and away, after them we went, followed by the `Culloden, `Blenheim, and `Diadem. The `Captain' was in the rear of the British line; but by the manoeuvre just performed, we came up with the Spaniards, and in a short time we and the `Blenheim' were tooth and nail with no less than seven Spanish line-of-battle ships one, the `Santissima Trinidade, of 130 guns, and the `San Josef' and `Salvador del Mundo' of 112, the others being of 80 and 74 guns.
John Trinidade had only one female slave; his other workpeople were a brother and sister-in-law, two godsons, a free negro, one or two Indians, and a family of Muras. Both he and his wife were mamelucos; the negro children called them always father and mother.
Admiral Collingwood led the southern, and got into action first, just astern of the `Santa Anna. We steered so as to pass between the `Bucentaur' and the `Santissima Trinidade. "`Well, there are a lot of the enemy, exclaimed Tom Collins to me, as I was standing near the gun he served. "`Yes, mate, said I; `and a pretty spectacle they will make at Spithead when we carry them there.
John Trinidade was famous for his tobacco and cigarettes, as he took great pains in preparing the Tauari, or envelope, which is formed of the inner bark of a tree, separated into thin papery layers. Many trees yield it, among them the Courataria Guianensis and the Sapucaya nut-tree, both belonging to the same natural order.
Admiral Collingwood led the southern, and got into action first, just astern of the `Santa Anna. We steered so as to pass between the `Bucentaur' and the `Santissima Trinidade. "`Well, there are a lot of the enemy, exclaimed Tom Collins to me, as I was standing near the gun he served. "`Yes, mate, said I; `and a pretty spectacle they will make at Spithead when we carry them there.
He obtained sixty, eighty, and sometimes a hundred layers from the same strip of bark. The best tobacco in Brazil is grown in the neighbourhood of Borba, on the Madeira, where the soil is a rich black loam; but tobacco of very good quality was grown by John Trinidade and his neighbours along this coast, on similar soil.
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