874 NIE.UHQF]?*S BRAZIL. 



Jukanajuprara ; the third enfnares their bodies, called by them Jukanapitereba. They 

 kill the fiflies with arrows, or catch them with fifhing-hooks, their baits being com- 

 monly worms, crabs, or fome fmall fifhes. They bait the water where they intend to 

 fifli, with the leaves of Japikai, or with Timpotiana, Tinguy, or with Tinguiri ; fome- 

 times with the fruit called Kururuape, the root Magui, or the bark of the tree Anda, 

 which make the fifli fwim , on the furface of the water like dead, when they take them 

 with a kind of a fteve, called by them Urupema, made of cane or reed, which they 

 eail Uruguiboandipia. Their fea-fifti they catch with iron hooks, the bait being fome 

 carrion ; they go a good way into the fea, only upon three pieces of wood faftened 

 together, which they call Igapeda, and the Portuguefe, Jangada ; the wood is com- 

 monly of the tree Apiba. 



The Brazilians are not burthened with much houfehold fluff, their hammocks being 

 their chiefefl care in this kind ; they call them Ini, are wrought of cotton like net- 

 work, of about fix or feven foot long, and four broad. When they are going to 

 fleep, they fallen them either to two beams of their huts, or elfe in the open air to 

 two trees, and fome diflance from the ground, for fear of fome obnoxious creatures, 

 and to avoid the peiliferous exhalations of the earth. The Tapoyers, called Kariri, 

 have very large hammocks, of twelve or fourteen foot long, which contain four perfons 

 at a time. The Portuguefe women make fome very fine hammocks, wrought with 

 divers figures in them. In lieu of difhes and cups they ufe the KalabafTek, cut in the 

 middle, which are painted without with a certain red colour, called Uruku, and within 

 with blaqk. Their cans, cups, and mugs, are Hkewife KalabaiTes of divers kinds, 

 called Kuite, Jaroba, and Kribuka. One of the biggell of thefe kalabaffes hold thirty 

 or thirty-five quarts ; this the Brazilians call Kuyaba, but when cut through the mid- 

 dle it is called Kuipeba. The poorer fort make certain knives they call Ituque, of 

 flone, as alfo of cane, which they call Taquoaquia, but the better fort ufe Dutch 

 knives. Their bafkets they make of palm-tree leaves, they call them Patigua ; they 

 have alfo fome made of reed or cane, thefe are with one general name called Kara- 

 memoa. They make alfo large broad bafkets of reeds and branches twilled together : 

 thefe they call Panaku, and are chiefly ufed for the carrying of the mandioka root. 

 In their journeys they always make ufe of the patigua, but the panaku is ufed by the 

 - (laves and negroes in the Receif for the conveniency of carriage. 



The arms of the Brazilians are only bows, arrows, and wooden clubs. Their bows, 

 which they call Guirapara and Virapara, are made of very hard wood, called Guira- 

 pariba and Virapariba : the bow-firings are made of cotton twifted, and by them called 

 Guirapakuma ; the darts they call Uba, and are made of wild cane. The points of 

 thefe darts are either of wood hardened, or of fifh teeth called Jacru, or of bones or 

 cane well fharpened ; fome have feveral points, others but one. 



Being not in the lead acquainted with arithmetic, they compute the number of their 

 years and age by the chefhuts which grow on the fruit Akaju, which chefnuts they call 

 Akaguakaya, as likewife Akajuti and Itamabara, of which they lay one by every year, 

 this tree producing fruit but once each feafon, viz. in December and January. They 

 begin the computation of their years with the rife of a certain flar, called by them 

 Taku, or the Rain-flar, which is always there in May ; they alfo call the year by the 

 fame name. 



The mofl barbarous of the Brazilians inhabiting the inland countries fcarce know 

 any thing of religion, or an Almighty Being. They have fome knowledge remaining 

 of a general deluge, it being their opinion, that the whole race of mankind were extir- 

 pated by a general deluge, except one man and his own filler, who being with child 



before. 



