“A large number of precious stones have been recovered, and among them an immense convex emerald, of great value, which was discovered in a tomb, supposed to contain the body of some very important dignitary. Many rich treasures have been found in the cemetery, evidently lodged with the dead in their last resting-place.
“There are evidences of much taste in the architectural department, and specimens of very elaborate workmanship have been discovered. The amphitheatre was evidently a grand structure, and with the base below the general surface of the earth, it is arranged with ascending rows of stone seats for the accommodation of a large assemblage. All the buildings are of stone.
“There is an extensive museum at Naples, which contains all the varieties from this reservoir of antiquarian relics; and to make the tour of this establishment, with a proper examination of these articles, and others of interest collected there, requires two weeks of unremitting observation.”
[8]. Captain Buhlaw received an appointment similar in rank to that held in the confederate service, and has been charged with the survey and mapping of the public lands near Cananea. In this service Mr. Mallory is associated with him under appointment of the government.
In regard to the tender of an appointment to the writer, the length of time occupied in the examination of the country precluded any other duty.
[9]. After the return of the Emperor from the seat of war, he and the Empress were seen in their coach, with six horses and a number of outriders. She endeavored to return the courtesies of those on the street by an almost incessant series of motions of the head from side to side, while he maintained an attitude of dignified complacence.
The horses are managed by men seated upon the saddle-horse of each pair, and they dash through the street at a rapid gait, a bugle being sounded frequently by a man riding in advance, so as to have the way cleared for the passage of the royal cortege.
[10]. Though this ant is so troublesome in the culture of the cotton grown from American seed, it does not attack the Brazilian cotton, which seems to be a variety of the sea island plant, that has been grown to a limited extent for a considerable period in Brazil. The stalk of this latter becomes very large, and really assumes the proportions of a small tree after growing three or four successive years. The lint is fine and the seed black and clean, but the yield is much less than the cotton from our ordinary short staple seed. The exemption from injury by the ant would constitute a very important recommendation if it produced as well as the other variety, but it is entirely abandoned since the introduction of the seed from the United States.
[11]. At his suggestion, an article appeared in the Diario De São Paulo, of September 26th, 1865, from which the following extracts are translated:
“This commission of Dr. Gaston arouses serious considerations. Under existing circumstances, our attention ought to be fixed, by preference, upon the States of the South of the American Union. A large portion of the party vanquished in the recent struggle will seek a new country. They cannot submit to the new order of things and live on a footing of equality with their slaves. Accumulated trouble, and various other reasons, concur to induce them to emigrate. If our government lose this favorable opportunity to draw them to our country it will not find another.