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Iiandle ; human liair is sometimes 

 fastened on tlie top, and a slit is 

 cut in it to represent a mouth, 

 through which their jugglers, 

 whom they call Payes, make it 

 utter its responses. A iew pebbles 

 are inserted to make it rattle, and 

 it is crowned with the red feathers 

 of the goaraz. Every man had 

 his Maraca. They were now all 

 produced ; Hans was set in the 

 midst of them, and the captors 

 addressed them, saying, their pre- 

 diction had been verified ; it had 

 promised them a Portuguese pri- 

 soner, and lo ! they had brought 

 one home. Upon this Hans spake 

 up, and denied that the prediction 

 could be verified in him. The 

 Maraca, he said, lied if it called 

 him a Portuguese ; he was a Ger- 

 man, and the Germans were 

 friends and allies of the French. 

 The Tupinambas calmly replied, 

 it was he who was the liar, for if 

 he was a friend and ally of the 

 French, how came he to live 

 among the Portuguese ? We 

 know, said they, that the French 

 are as much the enemies of the 

 Portuguese as we are: they come 

 to us every year, and bring us 

 knives, scissars, axes, combs, and 

 looking-glasses, for which we give 

 them wood, cotton, pepper, and 

 feathers. The j'ortuguese are a 

 very different people. When they 

 came first to the country, they 

 went to our enemies, and made 

 alliance with them, and built 

 towns among them, wherein they 

 still reside ; afterwards they came 

 in ships to us, to trade with us as 

 the French do now, and when 

 our people suspecting no danger, 

 went on board as guests, they 

 seized them, carried them away, 

 and gave them to our enemies to 



be devoured. Many of our bre* 

 thren have since been killed by 

 their bullets, and we suffer great 

 injuries from them. The two 

 brethren then told him that their 

 father's arm had been carried 

 away by a ball, of which wound 

 he died, and that death was now 

 to be avenged upon him. Hans 

 protested again ; there could be 

 no reason, he said, to revenge it 

 upon him ; he was not a Portu- 

 guese, but having been ship- 

 wrecked in a Castilian vessel, was 

 by that means cast among them. 

 The Tupinambas were not with- 

 out some sense of justice. There 

 was a lad among them who had 

 once been taken by the Tupini- 

 quins : they had surprised a set- 

 tlement ; and captured all its in- 

 habitants ; all who were grown 

 up were eaten ; the children were 

 made slaves, and this boy had be- 

 longed to a Gallego at Bertioga. 

 He knew Hans, and they called 

 upon him to give evidence con- 

 cerning him. The lad said a ship 

 had been wrecked there belonging 

 to the Castilians, who were friends 

 to the Portuguese, and this pri- 

 soner was in the ship; but this 

 was all he knew. Hans, when 

 they began to inquire into the 

 truth of this demurrer, saw some 

 hope of escaping. He knew there 

 were some French interpreters in 

 the country, left there to collect 

 pepper for the traders ; he repeated, 

 that he was the frien^l and brother 

 of the French, and protested 

 against being eafen before he 

 could be seen by some of that na- 

 tion and acknowledged by them. 

 This was thought reasonable, and 

 he was carefully watched till an 

 opportunity should occur of sub- 

 mitting him to this proof. 



