| Description | Barque Scotia of Banff, Rio de Janeiro. Announces safe arrival on 28 May; reports on passage, activities since and comments on news received from home; unloading is slow and crew poor, all except the mate and a boy having gone ashore without leave; describes Rio bay and the town; had ascended 2306 foot high mountain Corcovado by cog-wheeled railway; city looks lovely but has such a deadly sickness almost every year that she would not like to live there; telegram received on 20th with orders to proceed to Barbadoes. |