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taries. They live in separate families or small hordes ; 

 have no common chief, and are considered as a tribe 

 little disposed to adopt civilised customs or be friendly 

 with the whites. One of the houses belonged to a Juri 

 family, and we saw the owner, an erect, noble-looking 

 old fellow, tattooed, as customary with his tribe, in a 

 large patch over the middle of his face, fishing under 

 the shade of a colossal tree in his port with hook and 

 line. He saluted us in the usual grave and courteous 

 manner of the better sort of Indians as we passed by. 



We reached the last house, or rather two houses, 

 about ten -o'clock, and spent there several hours during 

 the great heat of mid-day. The houses, which stood 

 on a high clayey bank, were of quadrangular shape, 

 partly open like sheds, and partly enclosed with rude 

 mud-walls, forming one or more chambers. The in- 

 habitants, a few families of Marauas, comprising about 

 thirty persons, received us in a frank, smiling manner : 

 a reception which may have been due to Senhor Raiol 

 being an old acquaintance and somewhat of a favourite. 

 None of them were tattooed ; but the men had great 

 holes pierced in their ear-lobes, in which they insert 

 plugs of wood, and their lips were drilled with smaller 

 holes. One of the younger men, a fine strapping fellow 

 nearly six feet high, with a large aquiline nose, who 

 seemed to wish to be particularly friendly with me, 

 showed me the use of these lip-holes, by fixing a 

 number of little white sticks in them, and then twisting 

 his mouth about and going through a pantomime to 

 represent defiance in the presence of an enemy. Nearly 

 all the people were disfigured by dark blotches on the 



