Chapter I: Front Matter

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL.

_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.

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.