TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



Rio Pardo and Rio Paraiba, do not yet recognise 

 the dominion of the Portuguese, are more nu- 

 merous, and may, probably, amount to about 

 four thousand. They inhabit the eastern dech- 

 vity of the Serra da On^a, and the forests on the 

 north of the Paraiba, and extend their excursions 

 as far as the Rio Doce, where they sometimes en- 

 gage in quarrels with the cannibal Botocudos 

 dwelling there. 



Though we had gained in a short time the con- 

 fidence of the Coroados, and could reside among 

 them without fear ; we began to feel a wish to leave 

 this gloomy abode, where we felt in a manner as 

 if we were surrounded by lunatics. Our collections 

 were already enriched with the natural curiosities 

 of the adjacent country, and by the kindness of 

 the director, we also obtained a skeleton of a 

 Coroado lately killed in battle, and which, as an 

 important article, we most carefully concealed from 

 the superstitious savages. As the directors some- 

 times send Indians to the more populous places, 

 that the account which they give on their return^ 

 may have a favourable effect on their countrymen ; 

 the director in the presidio here, proposed that 

 we should take some Indians with us to Villa Rica, 

 as attendants. On the evening of our departure, 

 he therefore brought two young Coroados to our 

 residence, and encouraged them to accompany us 

 by giving them brandy, and by holding out the 

 prospect of returning home with the rank of capi- 



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