excerpt from 'A Cruising Voyage Round the World' pp. 42-43 (274 words)
excerpt from 'A Cruising Voyage Round the World' pp. 42-43 (274 words)
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[a note in the margin states: Nov. 27, 1708, 'A Procession at Angre de Reys: Our comical assistance at it, and Entertainment'] This morning Capt. Courtney and I, with most of our Officers, except those which we left to do what little remain’d unfinish’d on board the Ships, went in our boat to Angre de Reys [Brazil], it being the Day kept for the Conception of the Virgin Mary, and a high Day of Procession among these People. The Governour Signior Raphael de Silva Lagos, a Portuguese, receiv’d us very handsomly. He asked us if we would see the Convent and Procession: we told him our Religion differ'd very much from his. He answer’d we were welcome to see it, without partaking in the Ceremony. We waited on him in a Body, being ten of us, with two Trumpets and a Haughtboy [Oboe] which he desir'd might play us to Church, where our Musick did the Office of an Organ, but separate from the Singing, which was by the Fathers well perform’d. Our Musick play’d, Hey Boys up go we! and all manner of noisy paltry Tunes; and after Service our Musicians, who were by that time more than half drunk, march'd at the head of the Company. […] The ceremony held about two hours, after which we were splendidly entertain’d by the Fathers of the Convent, and then by the Governour at the Guard-House, his Habitation being three Leagues off. […] They unanimously told us, they expected nothing from us but our Company, and they had no more but our Musick. |
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