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82 as ever I saw. They get a pretty deal of it in some parts on this Coast; but 'tis very dear.

Besides this Port of Bahia de todos los Santos, there are two more principal Ports on Brazil, where European Ships Trade, viz. Pernambuc and Ria Janeira; and I was told that there go as many Ships to each of these Places as to Bahia, and two Men of War to each Place for their Convoys. Of the other Ports in this Country none is of greater Note than that of St. Paul's where they gather much Gold; but the Inhabitants are said to be a sort of Banditti, or loose People that live under no Government: but their Gold brings them all sorts of Commodities that they need, as Cloths, Arms, Ammunition, &c. The Town is said to be large and strong.