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guages too have some affinity, though in many points they are widely 

 different. 



Both tribes are said to unite against the Botocudos, and seem partly 

 to treat their prisoners as slaves ; for but lately they offered at Villa 

 do Prado, a Botocudo girl for sale. No well-founded suspicion was 

 ever entertained that these Patachos eat human flesh. The moral 

 rharacter of all these savage tribes is indeed very similar in the prin- 

 cipal features, yet each of them has its peculiarities : thus the Pata- 

 chos are, of all these tribes, the most distrustful and reserved ; their 

 look is always cold and sullen, and it is very seldom that they allow 

 their children to be brought up among the whites, as the other tribes 

 readily do. These savages roam about; their parties appear alter- 

 nately on the Alcobapa, at Prado, Comechatiba, Trancozo, &c. When 

 they visit any place, the inhabitants give them something to eat, and 

 exchange trifling articles with them for wax and other productions 

 of the woods, upon which they return to their wildernesses. 



Well pleased at having had an opportunity of becoming acquainted 

 with this tribe of the aboriginal inhabitants, I left Villa do Prado, and 

 rode quickly after my beasts of burden and people, who had set out 

 before me. The coast, on leaving Prado, assumes, farther to the 

 north, a different form from what it had before. On the sea side rise 

 high cliffs of clay, of a red and other colours, which has a basis of fer- 

 ruginous, variegated sand-stone : the elevations of this coast are co- 

 vered with wood, and numerous valleys open to the sea; these are 

 overgrown with dark green, gloomy primeval forests, the abode of the 

 Patachos. From all these valleys flow little streams, the barras, or 

 mouths of which, are often very troublesome to the traveller, at the 

 time of high water. Another inconvenience is presented by this coast 

 to the traveller, in the groups of rocks which project immediately from 

 the high clifts into the sea. At ebb-tide you may ride round these 



