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gravely dipped it into the pot, and took a sip. The 

 rattling of the gringcrina, and the monotonous 

 singing began again ; the leader then half emptied 

 the cup, and presented it to the others ; every one 

 then helped himself at pleasure out of the pot, and 

 the dance and the monotonous music became ge- 

 neral, and more and more noisy the longer the 

 cup went round. We, too, had a full cuja pre- 

 sented to us, and though filled with disgust, we 

 were obliged to follow the advice of our guide to 

 empty it, in order not to give the Indians any rea- 

 son for distrust. The beverage resembles in taste 

 our malt liquor, and when taken in a large quan- 

 tity is intoxicating, an effect which was but too 

 manifest towards the epd of the feast, by their 

 leaping and noisy singing of " Hi// ha ha/" Hopes 

 had been given us that we should see on this oc- 

 casion the dances of the Coroados ; but towards 

 evening, after their stomachs and heads were full, 

 one party slipped away after the other, as if by 

 previous agreement. 



The day after our arrival at Guidowald, a horde 

 of Puris had shown themselves, who rove about in 

 this neighbourhood. They crept timidly about the 

 houses, but at length took courage to enter, and 

 after we had made them some little presents, they 

 appeared to acquire confidence, and not to be un- 

 willing to remain with us. It was easy to observe 

 that they were ruder, but therefore less mistrustful 

 than the Coroados, who had been longer subject to 



