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by his wife. The Indian women, we Were told, 

 showed more attachment to the negroes than to 

 their own Indian husbands. Runaway negroes, 

 therefore, frequently appear in the woods as the 

 cicisbei of the Indian women, and are passionately 

 sought by them. The contrary is the case with the 

 Indian men, who consider the negresses as below 

 their dignity, and despise them. After taking 

 leave with rather more cordiality, we parted from 

 our guests and rode through a thick forest to 

 Guidowald, where we arrived before sunset. 



This farm was built by the commandant, close to 

 some of the villages of the Indians who were to be ci- 

 vilised, in order to have them always under his eye. 

 It is situated in a confined, thickly wooded coun- 

 try, on the western declivity of the Serra da On9a, 

 a part of the Serra do Mar. The Rio Xipoto, a 

 river only six fathoms broad, which rises not far 

 from this place, and then joins the Rio da Pomba, 

 flows near the fazenda, to the north, and divides 

 it from the settlement of the Indians on the other 

 side. The predominant kind of rock in this 

 country is gneiss, or gneiss-granite, over which 

 are thick beds of red clay. It is said, indeed, 

 that traces of gold have been found here, yet 

 the streams bring nothing down with them but 

 little fragments of quartz, rock-crystal, and splin- 

 ters of amethysts. When the wood is felled and 

 cultivated, it produces plentiful crops of maize, 

 mandiocca, beans, and likewise cotton. We had 



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