THE AVILD 1N1)L\N TIUBES OF THE MADEIRA A'ALLEY. 
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Cuyaba, cliieftain and Paje of an independent liordo of Cayon a Indians, 
made liis appearance ; and I had tlie Ijonour of being introduced to 
this inagnifiecnt sample of a conjiirer. lie was a man of about fifty, 
with large, Avell-cut features, framed within a dense, streaming mane of 
long black hair. The long xerimbita on his under lip (a long, thin 
cylinder of a resin resembling amber), a groat number of black and 
Avhite beads, covering his chest in regular roAVS like a cuirass, and a 
broad girdle holding his chorijiu (sort of apron), which Avas fringed 
all round Avith rich Avoven ornaments, gave him quite a stately, majestic 
appearance. 
Though he had never seen Avhitc men belbre, — the I'eAV officials of the 
Aldeamento being all more or less “ amulatados,” that is, showing the 
mulatto type, — and though our expedition could not but interest him in 
more AAmys tlian one, he did not deign to shoAV the least surprise, or 
anything like it, and on our in\dtation took a seat at our table with such 
a quietly sujAercilious selt-possessiou that we ourselves nearly forgot the 
nil admirari and our duties as hosts. 
In an intendeAV he had with the Director of the Aldeamento, 
Avho Avished him to leave his forests and to join the Avhites, who had 
plenty of knives, hatchets, salt, and even poAvder and lead, and among 
AA'hom only polygamy was prohibited, he OAATied, — gravely nodding his 
head and repeating OAmr and OAmr again, “Mesmo, mesmo” (“LikeAvise, 
likewise,” used affirmatively), Avhieh had already gained for him the ni(*k- 
namo of “ Capitao Likewise,” — ^that Avhat the Avhite eapitao had said 
as to the poAver and riches of the white men was all right and true ; 
and that eAmu polygamy had its disadvantages ; but that, nevertheless, 
on account of his people he preferred remaining in the AAmods, and 
coming only occasionally to the Aldeamento to trade Avith his white 
friends. “ Yes ; and to lulfcr this and that,” was savagely whispered 
into my ear by the Dhector, Avho had noAV, for the third or fourth 
time, been baffled in his attempts at “ civilising ” the sly felloAV. 
“Whenever he comes here,” he assm’cd me, “I haAm to send a few 
spies after him, if I don’t wish him, or his Avorse set of Avonien, to 
take UAvay an axe, or a kuite, or even a gun to his canoe, in addition 
to the little bag of salt I ahvays present him Avith.” 
“What do you think the rogue did some time ago, in the Aldea- 
mento of Silo Peffi-o d’ Alcantara, on the Tibagy ? He kncAV that one 
of the CayoAva Indians there, one of his OAvn tribe, was possessed of 
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