The poor adventurers nearby
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Em um circulo de uma legua da casa, não havia senão algumas cabanas em que moravão aventureiros pobres, desejosos de fazer fortuna rapida, e que tinhão-se animado a se estabelecer neste lugar, em parcerias de dez e vinte, para mais facilmente praticarem o contrabando do ouro e pedras preciosas, que ião vender na costa,
Within a league of the house there were only a few huts in which poor adventurers dwelt, eager to make a quick fortune, who had dared to settle in this place, in bands of ten and twenty, the more easily to carry on the smuggling of gold and precious stones, which they went to sell on the coast.
Within a league of the house there were only a few huts of poor adventurers, eager for quick fortune, who had dared to settle here in bands of ten and twenty, the better to smuggle the gold and gems they went to sell on the coast.
Around the noble household Alencar sketches its rough shadow-population: gold-runners and gem-smugglers huddled in bands for safety. It is a frank picture of the colonial frontier as a lawless place of quick money, and it sets up Dom Antônio as the one point of order — the lord to whom all these masterless men look.
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