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did not fail to remark to them 

 that this slave had never been ill 

 since he came among them, till 

 he had endeavoured to procure his 

 death. 



The time of their expedition, 

 for which they had been three 

 months making preparations,' was 

 now at hand. He hoped they 

 ■would leave him at home with the 

 women, and then he had deter- 

 mined to fly. Before the time of 

 their departure was come, a boat 

 arrived from a French ship which 

 was lying at Rio de Janeiro ; it 

 came to trade for pepper, mon- 

 keys, and parrots. One man, who 

 spake the language of the Tupi- 

 nambas, landed, and Hans in- 

 treated him to take him on board ; 

 but hi« masters would not permit 

 him to go, for they were resolved 

 to have a good ransom for him. 

 He begged them then to go with 

 him to the ship ; this also they re- 

 fused, observing, that these people 

 were no friends of his ; for though 

 they saw him naked, they had not 

 even given him a cloth to cover 

 him. Oh, but his friends were 

 in the ship, he said. The ship, 

 they rephed, would not sail liil 

 their expedition was over, and it 

 would be time enough then to 

 take him there. But when Hans 

 saw the boat push off, his earnest 

 •wish to be at liberty overpowered 

 him ; he sprang forward, and ran 

 towards it along the shore. The 

 savages pursued, some of them 

 came up to him ; he beat them 

 cflP, outstript the rest, ran into the 

 sea, and swam off to the boat. 

 The Frenchmen refused to take 

 him in, lest they should offend 

 the savages, and Hans, once more 

 resigning himself to his evil des- 

 tiny, was compelled to swim 



back. When the Tupinambad 

 saw him returning they rejoiced ; 

 but he affected to be angry that 

 they should have supposed he 

 meant to run away ; and said he 

 only went to bid them tell his 

 countrymen to prepare a present 

 for them when they should go 

 with him to the ship. 



Their hostile expeditions are 

 preceded by many ceremonies. 

 The old men of every settlement 

 frequently addressed the young, 

 and exhorted them to go to war. 

 An old orator, either walking 

 abroad, or sitting up in his ham- 

 mock, would exclaim, What ! is 

 this the example which our fa- 

 thers have left us, that we should 

 waste our days away at home; they 

 who went out, and fought and 

 conquered, and slew, and devour- 

 ed! Shall we let the enemies, 

 who could not formerly stand in 

 our sight, come now to our own 

 doors, and bring the war home 

 to us ? — and then clapping his 

 shoulders and his hams, — oo, no, 

 Tupinambas, let us go out, let us 

 kill, let us eat ! Such speeches 

 were sometimes continued for 

 some hours, and were listened to 

 with the deepest attention. Con- 

 sultations were held in every town 

 of the tribe concerning the place 

 which they should attack, and the 

 time was hxed for assembling and 

 setting off. 



Religious Ceremonies of the Tupi- 

 nambas. \_Froni the same Work. "^ 



Once in the year the Payes 

 visited every settlement. They 

 sent notice of their coming, that 

 the ways might be made clear be- 

 fore them. The women of the 



