After this period, a scene completely new, opened before the King of Portugal; he removed to the house destined for him near the district of Guaymures, where he devoted himself to win the confidence of a suspicious and cruel, because fearful and once ill-used people. By his orders the desolate solitude was filled with cottages, to which he invited his wandering neighbours: his first care was to supply their wants without exacting or seeming to wish for any influence over their feelings. He frequently allured their children to his dwelling, and returned them to their native forests, loaded with presents of ornament and use: the children communicated a portion of their own curiosity to their parents, and these were thus brought to come and be spectators of his conduct. Imitating the example of Orpheus (the first tamer of men,) Sebastian touched their hearts through the purest of our senses: his flute, joined to the yet softer voice of Kara Aziek, called from their remotest haunt the amazed and delighted savages. Thus beguiled near him, they witnessed the comforts and the elegancies of polished life, in his own beautiful residence; from wandering, they came to understand and to admire; and the transition was easy from admiration to the wish of possession, and the desire of imitation. One by one they deserted their woods and came to dwell in his cottages; at length they sent their children to the schools he established, in which the most simple and useful manufactures were taught. They learned to trust and to love him: by degrees they lost all doubt, they passed from the extreme of suspicion, to the extreme of confidence: and soon, as if drawn by magnetic force, the whole of the Guaymures deserted their mountain dens, abandoned their precarious existence, crouded around his colony, asking to be instructed in the arts of agriculture and building. Industry like knowledge, has the property of humanizing; for the Guaymures ceased to delight in destruction: in proportion as they acquired the power of creating comfort around them, they became disgusted with scenes of wretchedness; and Sebastian had soon the gratification of beholding a people tamed by kindness, and rapidly proceeding in the path of improvement. The village of Cachoeira became a town; it grew into the wonder and the boast of Brazil. It was situated in a deep valley, embosomed among mountains covered with forests; the gentle Cachoeira washed their feet: plantations of young sugar-canes, maize and cotton, clothed the earth with their tender green; domestic cattle were seen feeding in meadows of the most luxuriant verdure; and round the lightly-constructed cottages arose gardens, in which beauty blended with utility. The various and brilliant flowers of that benevolent climate grew there spontaneous: bowers of Tatai-iba and Guaiba appeared together, the purple fruitage of the one, and the glittering leaves and variegated blossoms of the other, mingled in the same shade.