THE WILD IXDIAX TRIBES OF THE JLVDEIRA VALLEY. 
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runuinj,^ along the frontier against rerii 1‘rom the parallel of 1U° 20' 
of soiitli liititiiflo), beoanso they had destroyed some of their primitive 
bridges, that is, felled tines whieh lay across the river, to the obstruc- 
tion of the passage of the boats. While they were dragging tlnm- 
canoes over a shoal, an overpowering number of savages broke in upon 
them with fearful yells. The situation was a desperate one, their 
ammunition having been damped by the upsetting of a canoe on the 
previous day. T^Tieu at last they succeeded in getting their boats 
afloat, the second in command, Lieutenant Soares Pinto, lay dying in 
one of them, while, in another, the Peruvian commissary, Eoldau, 
writhed with pain from an arrow-shot in the leg, besides several of 
the padiUers who were more or less wonndeL After a dreadful voyage 
of many day.s, they reached the steamer stationed at the mouth of the 
Javary, which conveyed them to Manaos; but the poor Peruvian Avas 
in such a state that the physicians thought amputation necessary, tlie 
setting-in of gangrene being apprehended in this hot climate, and after 
the Sony nunsing he had received. 
Another case, involving the guilt of both parties, — ^the disregard of 
human dignity on the one .side, and ti'eachery and barbarous violence 
only on his grim features and the dismayed faces of the Director and his blacks. They 
retu-ed speedily to the house, apprelioiiding an attack at dawn of day ; but morning 
ttame witliout the Coroados : so, after having weh searched the phiee, and, to their 
surprise, discovered that the Indians had taken away, during the night, the body of 
their dead chief from under the very windows, they all crossed the river — there about 
000 yards wide ; for the Coroados are inditferent boatmen, and could not easily pursue 
them. The Guaranis of the settlement, who until now had scrupulously kept aloof 
froiu tho whole affair, followed their leaders, and a few days afterwards had to su.staiii 
u bold attack of their hereditaiy enemies the Coroados ; the Major and his men having 
already left the jdace for Curitiba, the capital of the provbice, where, after a strict 
investigation, he was dismissed ; and Amhrosio, tho white overseer, and one of tho 
blacks, wore sent to prison for many months. In tho skirmish on the shores of the 
Paranapauema, the gentle Guaranis, with the aid of a few fire-arms and swords, got 
the better of tlioir bold assailants. AVe al'torwards brought over one of their ti-oplues, 
the skuU of a Coroado woman, which showed a deoi) sahre-cut. It is now in tho 
collection of skulls helouging to the Medical I’acidty at Ereihurg, in the Breisgau. 
In almost every case of Idoodshed between the white and tho rod men, it has been 
found that the latter would not he molested on their hunting-grounds by the white 
intruders, or that they were refused the indeumifieation they asked for them. Twenty 
and more year's ago, before the law was in force which gave to the Government all 
tracts of laud tho titles to the possession of which could not he proved, every ostnneiero, 
or cattle breeder, in the thuily-peopled Southern provinces longed for new campos 
for Ids increasbig herds. One of thorn, living near the Passo Pundo, on tho 
Uruguay, discovered a magnificent prairie, capable of pasturing thousands of cows, 
which was divided from tho older possessions by a tract of forest some miles wide 
only. It was a perfect godsend; and the ostanciero forthwith sot about opening a 
