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were enemies to the Goyanazes j other remnants 

 of whom are said still to dwell under the name of 

 the Sacurus, in the Serra dos Orgaos.* Perhaps the 

 Carios have been mixed with some descendants of 

 the Tamoyos, those savage and warlike cannibals, 

 of whom the Portuguese, who first settled in the 

 neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, drew the darkest 

 picture, and against whom Don Antonio Salema, in 

 the year 1572, undertook the last war of exter- 

 mination.t 



The people of the American continent have 

 to show, in their earlier history, migrations similar 

 to those by which the inhabitants of the high 

 regions of middle Asia came to Europe. The re- 

 searches of a celebrated traveller, seem to have 

 placed it beyond all doubt, that the direction of 

 these migrations on the whole was from north to 

 south. We, too, shall have occasion, in the course 

 of this narrative, to mention several facts which 

 confirm this supposition. But, besides the great 

 and general migrations, there have been several 

 partial ones in different directions, and the arrival 

 of the Europeans on the coast of Brazil, probably 

 caused several of the more powerful tribes to 

 retire from the coast, farther into the interior, so 



* Father Casal (Corograf. Bras. ii. p. 46.) states, that the 

 name Guarti, or Guarulho, is used collectively by several 

 nations. But his accounts, as far as regards the Indian tribeis, 

 are very little to be depended upon. 



f Southey's History of Brazil, vol. i. p. 312. 



