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Rio de Janeiro

taken by the guards who constantly patrole on their edges he is infallibly put in prison even if he is within them unless he can tell where they are

The inhabitants here are very numerous they consist of Portugese negroes & Indians aborigines of the countrey The township of Rio whose extent I could not learn but was only told that it was but a small part of the Capitanea or province is said to contain 37000 whites & about 17 negroes to each white which makes their numbers 629000 & the number of inhabitants in all 666000 as for the Indians they do not live in this neighbourhood tho many of them are always here doing the Kings work which they are obligd to do by turns for small pay for which purpose they come from their habitations at a distance I saw many of them as the guard boat was constantly

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