The other five captaincies were not taken hold of seriously by their proprietors.
The smaller captaincies were little more than resorts for pirates and contraband traders in brazil-wood.
He visited all the captaincies south of Bahia and entered Rio Bay, then the principal rendezvous for the French privateers and traders.
It is to be found in the greatest abundance upon the taboleiros, which bound the captaincies of Paraiba and Searà , upon the borders of Pinhancò, and I have likewise seen it in Piauhi.
In short, eleven regiments of an enemy's cavalry, quartered on the eleven captainciesnear the capital, and starting out daily to forage, could not do more mischief.
Some time before the period at which these captaincies were established, a factory had been planted at Pernambuco.
Cattle and the sugar-cane were at an early period introduced from Madeira, and here the other captaincies supplied themselves with both.
The capital rose rapidly in importance, and the captaincies learned to regard it as a common head and centre of wealth.
Amongst the other captainciesfounded about this period were those of S.
There is not much of an active nature to relate in the history of the several captaincies at this period beyond a tale of successive little wars, in which the Portuguese were for the most part allied with some one native tribe against another.
It then began to be perceived that the system of having so many captaincies or separate governments, under no supreme authority nearer than Lisbon, was one likely to be productive of considerable inconvenience and confusion.
He killed those of whom he stood in fear, and gave their captaincies and duties to those whom he thought proper.
Many of the captaincies had, upon swearing to maintain the constitution, spontaneously adopted that measure.
Rio de Janeiro had become a place only inferior in importance to the other two, its natural advantages being still greater, and the climate milder; nor were the other captaincies less prosperous.
The first person who took possession of one of these captaincies was Martim Affonso de Souza, in 1531, who sometimes claims the discovery of Rio de Janeiro as his, although it had been named by Solis fifteen years before.
Interest was on the side of the Friars, and the most disgraceful scenes took place in various captaincies between the parties, the Governors being either not able or not willing to interfere with effect.
This letter to the Prince expresses the sentiments of all the southern part of Brazil, and to a certain degree those of the northern captaincies also.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "captaincies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
