and sent off
from Rio, thirty-six days previously, which time he had wasted in
drunkenness and idleness, having only completed forty leagues of his
journey; Captain Lyon consequently ordered him to return to Rio, as the
specimen of ill conduct already given, shewed him to be unworthy of
being received into the Company's service.

Our accommodations to night were much us usual, mud floors, and our
cloaks for a covering. Total six leagues and a half to-day.

_Thursday, 7_.--We set off before daylight, which did not agree very
well with me, the morning air being still too keen for my lungs, which,
with a pain in my side, made me very unwell to-day. About noon we
stopped at a farm-house in a village, called Os Ilhos. There was a
church in progress here, the walls of which they were building with mud.
After refreshing ourselves, and our mules, for about an hour, we resumed
our journey toward a large farm, called Baroga, having made 24 miles
to-day. My companions fared sumptuously, as we had brought a turkey with
us from our last resting place, and with the addition of a roasting pig,
it made the grandest feast imaginable, and far exceeded any thing we had
met with since we left Rio de Janeiro; however, it proved a fast to me,
as I was obliged to take medicine, and leave them to their enjoyment.

Our host and hostess were plain honest good farming people, and appeared
desirous to do every thing they could for Captain Lyon, but for all
that, they could not be roused out of their accustomed methodical
manner, and the preparation of our meal was, to them, a business of
serious delay and labour.

And all entreaties were vain,
For they'd promise and promise again,
But still go on the same.

My friends, therefore, were compelled to take policy for their
counsellor, and patience for their remedy. The most provoking part of
the affair was, that they were expected to consider themselves obliged,
by the condescension of their hosts, in undertaking upon any terms to
minister to their necessities: consequently there was no possibility of
giving utterance to any hasty feelings of impatience; no opening for
those little outbreaks of anger so common to hungry gentlemen. These,
might they have been indulged, would have amused, as well as comforted
the sufferers, but unhappy travellers! they were compelled to

Let _keen hunger_, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on their _inner man_.

Here, however, our accommodations were quit