[{13}] Some years ago a sailor made an attempt to scale the Sugarloaf. He succeeded in attaining the summit, but never came down again. Most likely he made a false step and was precipitated into the sea.
[{14}] The worthy Lallemand family received her, a few days after her arrival into their house.
[{23a}] The princess was three weeks old.
[{23b}] Rockets and small fireworks are always let off at every religious festival, some before the church, and others at a short distance from it. The most ludicrous part of the affair is, that this is always done in open day.
[{27}] They are differently paid, according to what they can do. The usual hire of a maid-servant is from ten to twelve shillings per month; for a cook, twenty-four to forty; for a nurse, thirty-eight to forty; for a skilful labourer, fifty to seventy.
[{34a}] Truppa is a term used to designate ten mules driven by a negro; in most instances a number of truppas are joined together, and often make up teams or caravans of 100 or 200 mules. Everything in the Brazils is conveyed upon mules.
[{34b}] A cord, with a noose at the end; the native inhabitants of South America use it so skilfully that they catch the most savage animals with it.
[{38}] Fazenda is equivalent to our word “plantation.”
[{39}] Kabï is African grass, which is planted all over the Brazils, as grass never grows there of its own accord. It is very high and reed-like.
[{40}] Rost (roaster) is employed to denote partly a strip of low brushwood, partly the place where a wood has stood previously to being burnt.