MAP OF BRAZIL
Adapted from the Railway Map arranged by Dr. Miguel Calmon for the Brazilian Government
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INDEX

Printed in the United States of America.


[1]. Martim Affonso’s capitania, then the most southern part of Portuguese territory, had one hundred leagues of coastline, with headquarters at S. Vicente; next came Santo Amaro (Itamaracá) and Parahyba do Sul (present Rio de Janeiro State); Espirito Santo; Porto Seguro; Ilhéos, stretching up to the south of the Bahia; Bahia itself, running from the Bay to the mouth of the S. Francisco river; Pernambuco; Maranhão, divided into 3 captaincies of which two, totalling 150 leagues, went to João de Barros, the third, of 75 leagues, to Fernão Alvares de Andrade; most northerly came Ceará.

[2]. Calculation of the Brazilian historian Theodoro Sampaio.

[3]. Brazilian historians differ as to dates, but Southey says that the first discovery of gold in Matto Grosso was made in 1734 by Antonio Fernandez de Abreu.

[4]. Portugal swallowed her loss without much protest, there was no serious excitement in Brazil, and the Portuguese troops stationed in Brazil were shipped home without violence from more than one district.

[5]. Bought by the Rio Jornal do Commercio company at end of 1916 and now published as the Jornal do Commercio de São Paulo.