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Walter Scott has very kindly broken the laws of the Advocates Library at his
peril, & sent Dobrizhoffer over the border,xxxx octavos of
Vienna printing in a fortnight it will be hard work. Gutting is frequently xxx xxx <soon done>, – but this fellow is
like a woodcock, – all trail, of which nothing is left to be lost. I almost tremble to think how imperfect my history must have been in
many parts, if I had not been able to procure this author. – who is not only brimfull of the most curious information, but delivers
that information in the pleasantest manner imaginable, telling stories of himself in lively Latin, & writing so honestly &
cheerfully that one marvels how he came to be a Jesuit. – Here is the best account of the Yerva de Paraguay,Yerba mate (also spelled Yerva mate)
or Erva mate, made from Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly.rs Hill.xxxx<erous>.
You will see in the Memorias de S Vincente p.39.
I detected De Bry
I learn that the Annual Letters from Paraguay were published separately about the middle of the 17th century, – when the Jesuits were beginning to form their establishments there.xxx them out in some of our public libraries, – for in these it is that the history
of the Paulistas & their slave-wars is to be found.
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Gumilla & Ramusio are arrived. The whole of Oviedo is in the latter & in addition to his printed
Spanish works, a letter to Card. Bemboin which when he had given this voyage at length in four
& twenty folios, as he received the account from Orellana himself. Ramusio contains nothing whatever about Brazil, except two pages
by a Frenchman, who urges the K of France to take possession of it. Gumilla seems to have a much larger proportion of chaff than of
wheat – but I hope to learn from him how far the Tupi tribesxx xxxx which has taken me a great deal of time. These chapters of
manners, & state of the country are to xx straight forward narration what patch-work is to plain hemming.
Dobrizhoffer tells a story of Falkner which perhaps he has not told of himself.
The new Review is named the Quarterly. Scott I believe has
reviewed the Cid there, Sharon Turner in the Annual.
About this business of the D of York I have heard something very odd, from a man who is better acquainted with all the
secret history & mystery of political rascality than any other of my acquaintances person I have ever met with, &
certainly as well as any one in England.xxx believe that the D of Kent & the P. of
Wales are the secret instigators of this accusation.
I have just bought the English Ulloa,
Both copies of Bapt Porta