It deals with the transportation of the Bendegó meteorite from Bahia to the National Museum, under the command of the Emperor Dom Pedro II.

[1] Carvalho, a retired military man from the Paraguayan War, was in charge of transporting the meteorite.

He led an Empire Commission for Transport, initially concerned with how to take the meteorite to the Jacuricy Railway Station.

[1] In the hinterland, the Imperial Commission traveled 113 kilometers in 126 days to the train station.

[2] The work begins with the following paragraph: In 1784, Joaquim do Motto Botelho informed the Governor-General of Bahia, D. Rodrigo José de Menezes, that he had found an extraordinary stone in the vicinity of the Bendegó stream, supposing to contain gold and silver.According to WorldCat, the University of São Paulo is in possession of a copy of the bilingual book.