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Rio de Janeiro

in which the Captn is told that he has no reason to complain as such usage as he has receivd has been constantly the custom of the Ports of Brasil & that the Viceroy himself servd an English ship just in the same manner at Bahia as for me I am told that as I have not brought proper credentials from the Court of Lisbon it is impossible that I can be permitted to land.

19. Both the Captn & myself sent answers to his excellencys memorials this morn by the Leutenant who had orders not to suffer a guard to be put into his boat but if the Guard boat insisted upon it to return on board The boat let him pass but the viceroy as soon as he heard that he had come ashore without a guard orderd Centinels to be put into the boat & on
 

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