Excerpt from Travels in the South of Europe and in Brazil, Vol. 1: With a Voyage Up the Amazon, Its Tributary the Xingu', Now First Explored, by His Royal Highness IT will be in the recollection of all who receive this Work from my hand*, that a few years ago I undertook a voyage to Brazil. The chief motive that prompted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.