Chap. YI. 
MARAUA INDIANS. 
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taries. They live in separate families or small hordes ; 
have no common chief, and are considered as a tribe 
little disposed to adopt civilised customs or be friendly 
with the whites. One of the houses belonged to a Juri 
family, and we saw the owner, an erect, noble-looking 
old fellow, tattooed, as customary with his tribe, in a 
large patch over the middle of his face, fishing under 
the shade of a colossal tree in his port with hook and 
line. He saluted us in the usual grave and courteous 
manner of the better sort of Indians as we passed by. 
We reached the last house, or rather two houses, 
about ten o'clock, and spent there several hours during 
the great heat of mid-day. The houses, which stood 
on a high clayey bank, were of quadrangular shape, 
partly open like sheds, and partly enclosed with rude 
mud-walls, forming one or more chambers. The in- 
habitants, a few families of Marauas, comprising about 
thirty persons, received us in a frank, smiling manner : 
a reception which may have been due to Senhor Raiol 
being an old acquaintance and somewhat of a favourite. 
None of them were tattooed ; but the men had great 
holes pierced in their ear-lobes, in which they insert 
plugs of wood, and their lips were drilled with smaller 
holes. One of the younger men, a fine strapping fellow 
nearly six feet high, with a large aquiline nose, who 
seemed to wish to be particularly friendly with me, 
showed me the use of these lip-holes, by fixing a 
number of little white sticks in them, and then twisting 
his mouth about and going through a pantomime to 
represent defiance in the presence of an enemy. Nearly 
all the people were disfigured by dark blotches on the 
