Gurney's comment above almost certainly refers to Pedro Carolino, who produced The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in the mid 1880s. An American edition, with an introduction by Mark Twain, appeared in 1883.

Carolino didn't himself speak English; he appears to have had a Portuguese-French dictionary and an English-French dictionary, through both of which he dragged his thoughts.

Dover Press, bless them, reprinted most of this wonderful nonsense as "Fractured English as She is Spoke," though that seems to be out of print.

As the preface says, "A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth; and also to persons of others nations, that wish to know the portuguese language. We sought all we may do, to correct that want....without to acch us selves (as make some others) almost at a literal translation..."