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I staid looking on a considerable time, highly de- 
hghted at such an opportunity of seeing these interest- 
ing people in their most characteristic festivals. I was 
myself a great object of admiration, principally on ac- 
count of my spectacles, which they saw for the first time 
and could not at all understand. A hundred bright 
pairs of eyes were continually directed on me from all 
sides, and I was doubtless the great subject of conver- 
sation. An old man brought me three ripe pine-apples, 
for which I gave him half-a-dozen small hooks, and he 
was very well contented. 
Senhor L. was conversing with many of the Indians, 
with whom he was well acquainted, and was arranging 
with one to go up a branch of the river, several days’ 
jommey, to purchase some salsa and farinha for him. I 
succeeded in buying a beautiful ornamented murucu, the 
principal insignia of the Tushaua, or chief. He was very 
.loth to part with it, and I had to give an axe and a large 
knife, of which he was much in want. I also bought 
two cigar-holders, about two feet long, in which a gi- 
gantic cigar is placed and handed round on these occa- 
sions. The next morning, after making our payments 
for the articles we had purchased, we went to bid our 
adieus to the chief. A small company who had come 
from some distance were taking their leave at the same 
time, going round the great house in Indian file, and 
speaking in a muttering tone to each head of a family. 
First came the old men bearing lances and shields of 
strong wicker-work, then the younger ones with their bows 
and arrows, and lastly the old and young women carrying 
their infants and the few household utensils they had 
