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many words in particular from the Guaranis. It 

 seems probable, from the accounts of historians.* 

 that the tribe of the Goyanazes lived here, a, 

 well as in the plain of Piratininga, or S. Paulos 

 These latter are said to have been distinguished 

 from their neighbours, the Tamoyos, and Carios, 

 by their custom of living in caves under ground, 

 and not slaughtering the enemies whom they took 

 prisoners, but treating them as slaves ; and like the 

 tribe of Goytacazes, who lived farther to the north, 

 to have been a handsome, robust, warlike, and 

 docile race. If the Indians now living at Aldea 

 do Escada, in the neighbouring forests of the 

 Mantiqueira, and Serra do Mar, were remains of 

 those Goytacazes, this gradual degeneracy of the 

 form and physiognomy of the aboriginal inha- 

 bitants, to the degree of deformity and ugliness 

 for which they are now remarkable, as a conse- 

 quence of an intercourse for a few centuries with 

 white men, is a very singular phenomenon. It is 

 difficult to imagine, that that warlike and enter- 

 prising nation should have been reduced, in this 

 short period, to so small a number of individuals, 

 and to such a state of degeneracy and insignificance, 

 as to be rather an object of pity, than of historical 

 interest. On the contrary, it is more probable 

 that these Indians are remains of the less numerous 

 and weaker nation of the Carios and Guarus, who 



* Sautliey's History of Brazil^ vol. i. p. 34. 

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