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Coco or Uricana, built of clay, unplastered, and small. It is 

 built in the form of a square ; there is no church yet, but a 

 large cross, of wood, made by cutting off the branches and 

 lopping a huge Sapucaya-tree, and fastening a piece of timber 

 athwart. Mass is said in a small house. 



The inhabitants have their plantations partly in the islands 

 of the river and partly in the vicinity of the town: on the bor- 

 ders of the wood the Tenente Calmon is the only one who has 

 a fazenda with a sugar Engenho or mill. When they first 

 obtained possession of this spot where Linhares now stands, 

 they came over with thirty or forty armed people, and went to 

 drive away a body of Botocudos who had collected together, 

 but who presently fled and left the spot to the invaders. Some 

 of the natives had fallen in the attack, but the new-comers 

 soon found that a hundred and fifty stout archers were not so 

 soon to be expelled 3 they therefore went another way to work, 

 and, by stratagem, at length drove them entirely out: since 

 that time, now about three years, they have had possession 

 and they have not been any mure molested. There are in 

 the woods a variety of trees fit for timber, among others, the 

 Peroba, excellent for ship-building. To protect the settlers 

 from insult, they have a Quartel, or detachment of military, 

 which has penetrated into the interior of these immense woods, 

 and thereby affords more secure possession. It was, how- 

 ever, found necessary to provide the soldiers with a sort of 

 armour (Gibao d' Armas) to protect them from the arrows of 

 the Indians. . It is made of cotton cloth, with many layers 

 of cotton- wool wadded in and well closed. It is wide, and 

 with high collar to protect the neck, short at the arm, but so 

 as to cover the outer part, and reaches as low as the knee ; 

 but it is found to be too heavy and troublesome, and not alto- 

 gether secure, although it was supposed at first capable of 

 resisting a musket-shot. In Capitania and some other places, 

 these Gibao dArmas are made of silk, which are lighter but 

 more expensive. A trial was made by a strong Botocude 

 shooting an arrow at a soldier clothed with this armour with 

 consent; the arrow struck him in the side, but though it re- 

 bounded, gave the man a severe shock. 



From the fazenda of Bomjardim is a new road to the Quartel 

 do Riacho by the Lagoa dos Indios, near which is a second 

 detachment called the Quartel d'Aquiar, where several Indian 

 families reside, and eight Indian soldiers in the service. 

 From Linhares, in the woods is the Quartel segundo do Lin- 

 hares with twenty-three soldiers ; and on the south side of 

 the Rio Doce is the Quartel d'Auadya with twelve soldiers ; 

 and further on that of Porto do Souza, which ttiaintains twenty 



