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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



indolence, and the almrst untameable obstinacy of 

 their forefathers, and have but little intercourse 

 with the colonists, whose plantations and cattle 

 frequently suffer from the predatory attacks of 

 these troublesome neighbours. The inhabitants call 

 these Indians by the name of Capoculos, thereby 

 distinguishing them from those who are wholly 

 savage and uncivilised (Gentios^ Bugres, Indies 

 bravos). It is probable that these remaining In- 

 dians, who dwell along the coast, belong to several 

 tribes whose names are partly lost, because the 

 Portuguese did not distinguish them from each 

 other, but bestowed on them the common name of 

 Coroados or Shorn, because they used to cut off 

 the hair from the middle of the crown, and wore 

 only a circle of hair round the forehead.* The 

 chief abode of the Coroados, is at present on the 

 banks of the Rio da Poniba, a side branch of the 

 Paraiba ; and as the Indians generally make their 



Historians mention in the neighbourhood of Rio de 

 Janeiro, and along the coasts of that place, southward to S. 

 Paulo, the Tamoyos, a very warlike nation, allied with the 

 French under Villegagnon against the Portuguese ; also the 

 Carijos or Guaras, in the forests of the whole Serra do Mar, 

 also extended very far to the south. On the north coast of 

 the Bay of Rio, and in the plains of Cabo Frio, dwelt the Goy- 

 tacazes ; of the latter, the Corografia Brasilica (II. p. 45.) 

 mentions three hordes, namely, the Goytaca-Guassu, Goytaca- 

 Moppis, and the Goytaca-Jacoreto, Westward of these, 

 and to the south, behind Serra do Mar, nearly as far as to 

 S. Paulo, was the abode of the Goyanazes, who bore an affinity 

 to the Goytacazes. 



