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O Guarani 16.90 · 16.90

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O frade escreveu à claridade de uma acha de pau-candeia algumas linhas ao prior do convento do Carmo no Rio de Janeiro, e despedindo-se de Nunes, partiu.

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By the light of a splinter of candlewood the friar wrote a few lines to the prior of the Carmelite convent in Rio de Janeiro, and taking leave of Nunes, set out.

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