nieuhoff's brazil. ^yy 



enter, but he made towards them, who being extremely nimble, avoided the ftrokes 

 he made at them with great dexterity, and in the meanwhile fo galled his flanks with 

 their arrows, that the beaft roared mod terribly, and being all in a foam, fet upon 

 them with all his vigour, which they avoided by retiring every foot behind a tree that 

 flood in the middle of the court, and from thence continued to pierce his fides with 

 their darts, till finding the beaft begin to languifh by the lofs of blood, one of the 

 Tapoyers got upon his back, and laying hold of his horns, threw him upon the ground, 

 and being feconded by his comrade, they both killed the bull, roafted him under- 

 ground with a fire above it, according to their cuftom, and feafted upon their meat, 

 with the other Tapoyers there prefent. 



The Tapoyers of both fexes, from the king to the common fellow, go quite 

 naked, only that the men hide their privities, by tying the yard in a little bag or net 

 made of the bark of trees ; this they clofe up with a fmall ribbon called Takoayn- 

 haa ; upon occafion they untie it, and are more cautious in expofmg their privities 

 than fome of the Europeans : in the fame manner do the reft of the Brazilians in- 

 liabiting the inland countries. The women of the Tapoyers cover their privities only 

 with a handful of herbs, or a fmall branch of a tree, with the leaves on them : this 

 they thruft barely under a fmall cord or rope which is faftened round their middle like 

 girdles : in the fame manner they cover their backs, but fo carelefsly, that both be- 

 fore and behind, great part of both is expofed to view ; they change it every day. 

 The men wear alfo a kind of garland made of the feathers of the bird Guara or 

 Kaninde, upon their heads, from which certain feathers of the tail of the bird Arara, or 

 Kamud, hang down behind upon the back ; fome only tie a cotton ilring round their 

 hands, in which fome red or blue feathers are faftened behind ; this they call Akan- 

 bua9aba. They have alfo cloaks made of cotton thread, and woven like a net ; in 

 each of the holes they ftick a red feather of the bird Guara, and intermix them with 

 black, green, and yellow feathers of the birds Aakukara, Kazinde, and Arara, which 

 lie as clofe together as fifh fcales : there is a kind of cap on the infide of this cloak, 

 which with the reft covers the head, fhoulders, and the body, fomewhat below the 

 middle, fo that it is worn both for ornament and conveniency's fake, it being proof 

 againft the rain ; they call thefe cloaks in their tongue Guara Abuku. They alfo 

 faften certain combs of birds with wild honey to their foreheads, thefe they call 

 Aguana. 



If their fathers or mothers die, they pull every hair out of their heads ; they have 

 holes in their ears fo big, that you may thruft a finger into them ; in this they wear 

 either a bone of an ape called Nambipaya, or elfe a piece of wood, wrapt up in cotton 

 thread. The men have holes in their under-lips, in which they wear either a cryftal, 

 fmaragd, or jafper, of the bignefs of a hazel-nut : this ftone they call Metara, and if 

 it be green or blue, Metarobi ; but they are moft fond of the green ones : they have 

 alfo holes in their cheeks on each fide of the mouth ; in thefe the married men wear 

 a piece of wood of the bignefs and thicknefs of a good goofe-quill : fometimes they 

 wear a ftone in it called Tembekoareta : in the holes of their noftrils, fome have alfo 

 fuch like fticks of wood, which they call Apiyata : their bodies are all over painted 

 with a certain juice of brown colour, fqueezed out of the apple Janipapa ; this is even 

 ufed among the women and children. Befides this, they ftick feathers of divers 

 colours with wild-honey or maftick to the fkin of their bodies, which make them ap- 

 pear at a diftance like large birds ; this they call Akamongui. Thus they adorn their 

 arms with garlands made of red and yellow feathers of feveral birds, called Aguami- 

 ranga ; Sometimes they mix corals among them, which they call Arakoaya. They 



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