BRAZIL AND THE PAMPAS. 



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their manners, approximate closely to the Red Skins. They show 

 the same love of independence and the same antipathy to the tram- 

 mels of civilization. They are dispersed in the Brazilian forests, and 

 principally in the province of Maranhao or Maragnan. 



The Botocoudos are the least intelligent scions of the Brazilo- 

 Guarani branch. So great is the resemblance between their features 

 and those of the Chinese, that Auguste St. Hilaire relates that the 



PATAGONIANS. 



Botocoudos, having encountered some natives of " the Celestial Em- 

 pire " in a part of Brazil, joyqusly saluted them with all kinds of 

 amicable demonstrations, and christened them " their uncles." 



The Pampas Indians form a mass of tribes dwelling east of the 

 great Cordillera range, from the river Paraguay to the extreme south 

 of the continent. Most of these tribes are nomades ; but, thanks to 

 the persevering efforts of the Roman Catholic missionaries, they have 



