GONAIVES, ger-ria-ev, Haiti, town on the west coast on the bay of the same name, 65 miles north-northwest of Port au Prince. It has an excellent harbor, a naval and military hospital and a mineral spring. The exports are cotton, coffee, logwood, salt and mahog any. On 1 Jan. 1804 the independence of Haiti was proclaimed here by Dessalines, and in 1914 two battles were fought here between rebel and ,government forces. A United States consul is situated here. Pop. 15,500.
GONgALVES DIAZ; Antonio, Brazilian poet: b. near Caxias, Maranhao, 1823; d. at sea, September 1864. He studied law at the Univer sity of Coimbra, Portugal, but upon returning to Brazil in 1845 he engaged in literary pursuits at Rio de Janiero as a newspaper writer and poet. His first volume of poems,
Cantos' (1846), established his reputation as a poet, being remarkable both for their interpreta tion of Brazilian national feeling and as bear ing the imprint of his own individuality. His (Segundos Cantos e sextilhas de Frei Antao' (1848) confirmed his reputation for clear, beau tiful expression and easy rhythm. He was appointed professor of Brazilian history at the Imperial College of Pedro II at Rio de Janiero in 1849 and in 1851 published his
gaged in government service, studying educa tional institutions in northern Brazil and in Europe. Returning to Brazil in 1860 he was appointed to the expedition sent to make a historical and ethnographical survey of the province of Ceara. Illness compelled his resignation in 1862 and it was when he was re turning from a trip to Europe, in which he sought to restore his health, that he perished in a shipwreck off the shores of Brazil. Be sides the three volumes of verse already men tioned he was author of 'Os Tymbiras' (1857) ; 'Diccionario da lingua Tupy> (1858). He wrote many reports upon his government in vestigations and had written a considerable part of a work entitled 'Historia des Jesuitas de America.> A complete edition of his lyrical poems was published under his own direction at Leipzig and his complete works were pub lished in Rio de Janeiro.