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they have others alio made of great Shells and Canes. They us'd to be continually 

 ac War one with another,which they wag'd neither for Lands nor RicheSjbut either 

 to make themfelves eminent, and to be accounted valiant Soldiers, or molt efpeci- 

 ally for the fake of Man's.flefh to feed upon, which they love beyond all things in 

 the World,wherefore they fatten all their Prilbners for the (laughter. Their Battels 

 are always cruel, for they fight very defperately. Emanuel de Moraes relates, That he 

 law a Brafilian fight with three Armed Tortuguefes, tvho flew him not till after he had 

 wounded them all three. 



The Languages of the Brajtlkns are feveral, each Countrey fpeaking a peculiar 

 Tongue, butlo different that they cannot underftand one another. The Tabujans 

 are divided into above eighty Tribes, each fpeaking a peculiar Language, which 

 have no refemblance one with another ; neverthelefs they have a general Lan- 

 guage which is underftood by moftof them. The ]ciuk jofepb Jnchku publifliing 

 a Brafilian Dictionary in Conimbrica, Anno 1595. fhewed that the fore-mention d 

 Language wants the Letters /, /, /, ^, r, and hath no double Confonants in any 

 word, except mb y nd, ng, fo that the found of the word falls generally on the laft 

 Vowel. The fore-mention'd Moraes well experienced in the Urafdian Tongue, writ 

 an Alphabet of all the moft familiar words thereof us'd in common Difcourfc, of 

 which it will not be unneceffary to give this following Extrad : 



The Langua- 

 ges of the 

 Bra/Mans. 



A. 



\ <Ba, a Man, alfo Hair. 

 ^ ^Acu, the Left-hand. 

 Acuabeimae, Sweet. 

 Jmaberaba, Lightning. 

 Amacuminga, Thunder. 

 Amandiba, Hail. 

 Anama, a near Relation. 

 Anga, the Soul. 

 jingabara, Lean. 

 Angaipata, Angry, or Wic- 

 ked. 

 Angaturama, Thankful, or 



Acceptable. 

 Apara, a Crown. 

 jipecutn, the Tongue. 

 Jpicaba, a Stool. 



Ara, the Time, Skye, or 

 Day. 



Ara*ibi coauime, Noon. 



Araya, Grandmother. 



Atapuana, Light. 



Atapuatia, Swift. 



Atucupe, the Back. 



Atyba, the Shouldg:. 



Ay cig, a Mother. 



Ayura, the Neck. 



B. 



3o>4, a Slave. 



C. 



Cama, a Sucking-Bread. 

 Canga, a Leg. 

 Caraibebe,apiabebe, an An- 



Qaruca, the Evening. 

 Capii, Grafs. 

 Capii goacu, Straw. 

 Catu, Dainty. 

 Cay, an Ape. 

 Ceba, a Loaf. 

 Cibera, the Buttocks. 

 Cemiracoaobae, a Widower. 

 Ceo, a Breaft. 

 Ceteeimibae, a Ghoft. 

 G&W* an Aunt. 

 Qoaraci, a Son. 

 Cobra, a Serpent. 

 Coemhanga, the Dawn. 

 Qoriba, Rejoyce. 

 Coya, Twins. 

 Cunha, a Wife. 

 Cunbaiba, a Bride. 

 Qunumigoacu, a Youth* 

 Cunumi, a Boy. 

 E. 

 Ecatuda, the right Hand. 

 Eyruba, a Bee. 



Giba, an Arm* 



Guaibino, an old Woman. 

 Guirarupia, an Egg. 



I. 



Jaci, the Moon, or Month. 

 J achat a, a Star. 

 lb a, a Tree. 

 Ibiaia, the Heavens. 

 Ibatinga and Ibitinga, a 



Witch. 

 Ibateba, High. 

 Ibi, the Earth. 

 Ibitira, a Mountain. 

 Ibitu, the Wind. 

 leapt, the Dew. 

 Ig, Water. 

 Jguaba, a Cap. 

 Ipeca, a Goofe. 

 Igue, the Side. 

 Ita, Iron, or a Stone. 

 Jtacira, a Spade. 

 Itapigua, a Nail. 

 Juba, Yellow. 

 M. 

 SMaupiara, the Gall. 

 Mbabeaubtra, Sick. 

 Mbiu, Meat. 

 Mbo, a Hand. 

 Membeca, Softly. 

 Menearaa, a Wedding. 

 Micu, a Toe. 



Mita, 







