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persons. One was a young Portuguese from the pro- 

 vince of Traz os Montes, a pretty sample of the kind of 

 emigrants which Portugal sends to Brazil. He was two 

 or three and twenty years of age, and had been about 

 two years in the country, dressing and living like the 

 Indians, to whom he was certainly inferior in manners. 

 He could not read and write, whereas one at least of our 

 Tapuyos had both accomplishments. He had a little 

 wooden image of Nossa Senhora in his rough wooden 

 clothes chest, and to this he always had recourse when 

 any squall arose, or when ^Ye got aground on a shoal. 

 Another of our sailors was a tawny white of Cameta ; the 

 rest were Indians, except the cook, who was a Cafuzo, 

 or half-breed between the Indian and negTo. It is often 

 said that this class of mestizos is the most evilly-disposed 

 of all the numerous crosses between the races inhabiting 

 Brazil ; but Luiz was a simple, good-hearted fellow, 

 always ready to do one a service. The pilot was an old 

 Tapuyo of Para, with regular oval face and well-shaped 

 features. I was astonished at his endurance. He never 

 quitted the helm night or day, except for two or three 

 hours in the morning. The other Indians used to bring 

 him his coffee and meals, and after breakfast one of 

 them relieved him for a time, when he used to lie down 

 on the quarter-deck and get his two hours' nap. The 

 Indians forward had things pretty much their OAvn way. 

 No system of watches was followed ; when any one was 

 SO disposed, he lay down on the deck and went to sleep ; 

 but a feeling of good fellowship seemed always to exist 

 amongst them. One of them was a fine specimen of 

 the Indian race : a man very little short of six feet 



