Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0144
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Rio de Janeiro
votaries in the night he is furnishd with a small lamp which hangs before his little glass window to these it is very customary to pray & sing hymns with all the vociferation imaginable as may be imagind when I say that I & every one Else in the Ship heard it very distinctly at the ship every night tho we lay at least half a mile from the town
The Goverment of this place Seems to me to be much more despotick even than that of Portugal tho many precautions have been taken to render it otherwise The Cheif Magistrates are the Viceroy,the Governour of the town & a Council whose number I could not Learn but only that the Viceroy had in this the casting vote without the consent of this Council nothing material should be done yet every day shews that the Viceroy & Governour at least if not all the rest do the most unjust things without consulting any one puting a man into prison