Crossword-Solution: MARANHAO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The puchery, or pichurim, which is grated like nutmeg, differs from another aromatic fruit (a laurel?) known in trade at Grand Para by the names of cucheri, cuchiri, or cravo (clavus) do Maranhao, and which, on account of its odour, is compared with cloves.) Between the confluence of the Padamo and that of the Mavaca, the Orinoco receives on the north the Ocamo, into which the Rio Matacona falls.

Coffee planting was slow in developing, however, until 1732, when the governor of the states of Pará and Maranhao urged its cultivation.

The only pity is, that up till now--more than three years later--the Expedition has had but little result, and, according to the latest intelligence from Rio, some of the members in the north-east of the province of Cearà cannot proceed any further for want of money (_por falta de dinhero_), and expect new funds in order to continue their explorations and their efforts in search of the wild tribes (_em busca das tribus selvaticas!_) in the interior of Maranhao.

The subject of debate was a petition presented to the House for an inquiry into the conduct of a late minister of justice, who was accused of having tyrannically dismissed a government officer in the province of Maranhao.

The great heat and drought which prevail in Maranhao, Piauhy, Matto Grosso, and that direction generally, is eminently suitable to the dromedary, which does not thrive in hot _damp_ weather.