Produced by WebRover, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL. [Illustration: THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS. _E Fry del._ _Reeve Lith._] TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PROVINCES, AND THE GOLD AND DIAMOND DISTRICTS, DURING THE YEARS 1836-1841. BY GEORGE GARDNER, M.D., F.L.S., SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF CEYLON. “A populous solitude of bees and birds, And fairy-formed and many-colour’d things, … the gush of springs, And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend, Mingling, and made by Love unto one mighty end.” CHILDE HAROLD. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 1849. [Illustration] REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. TO SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.A., AND L.S., VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY CÆSAR. LEOPOLD. NATURAL. CURIOSORUM, ETC., ETC., AND Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew, TO WHOM THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY IS SO MUCH INDEBTED, ALIKE FOR HIS LIBERAL PATRONAGE, AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO IT IN THE NUMEROUS AND VALUABLE WORKS WHICH HAVE ISSUED FROM HIS PEN, THE FOLLOWING WORK, CONTAINING THE NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS, WHICH, BUT FOR HIS KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT, COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN, IS INSCRIBED WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY HIS GRATEFUL FRIEND AND PUPIL, GEORGE GARDNER. PREFACE.