[957] Stephens, pp. 227, 228.
[958] Introduction, 3-vol. ed. i, 103-108; 1-vol. ed. pp. 60-61. The formula of heat and moisture, however, applies only generally. One of the climatic troubles of the great province of Céará in particular is that at times there is no wet season, and now and then even a drought of whole years. See ch. iii, Climatologie, by Henri Morize, in the compilation Brésil en 1889, pp. 41, 42.
[959] Cp. the extremely interesting treatises of Mr. Lucien Carr, The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley (Washington, 1893), The Position of Women among the Huron-Iroquois Tribes (Salem, 1884), and on the Food and Ornaments of Certain American Indians (Worcester, Mass., 1895-97).
[960] Increase of eight millions since 1890.
[961] Stephens, p. 225.
[962] Mr. Stephens (p. 226) states that there were created three vast "chief captaincies." Baron de Rio-Branco, in his Esquisse de l'histoire du Brésil, in the compilation Brésil en 1889, specifies a division by the king (1532-35) into twelve hereditary captaincies. Both statements seem true. The policy of non-interference was wisely adhered to by later governors, though Thomas de Sousa (circa 1550) introduced a necessary measure of centralisation.
[963] Stephens, pp. 231, 232.
[964] Baron de Rio-Branco, Esquisse, as cited, pp. 127-32.
[965] Id. p. 149; Stephens, p. 231.
[966] Stephens, p. 359.