 At 18 years of age he landed in Bahia, where he made a point of announcing to the newspaper Correio Mercantil his new name, in order to remove any confusion with another António Ferreira da Silva.He did this to pay homage to his hometown as well.In Bahia he continued to work as a sales clerk for a coffee merchant but continued to be exploited by his boss and frustrated by the ""despotism of proprietors without scruples"".