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I kill all they can, reserving only some young girls for 
I their wives. The hope of selling them to the traders, 
however, induces them to spare many who would other- 
, wise be murdered. These are brought up to some 
i degree of civilization (though I much doubt if they are 
! better or happier than in their native forests), and though 
at times ill treated, they are free and can leave their 
masters whenever they like, which, however, they seldom 
do when taken very young. Senhor L. had been re- 
quested by two parties at Barra — one the Delegarde de 
I Policia — to furnish them each with an Indian girl, and as 
I this man was an old hand at the business, he was now 
[! agreeing with him, furnishing him with powder and shot 
I — for he had a gun — and giving him some goods, to 
pay other Indians for assisting him, and to do a little 
business at the same time if he had the opportunity, 
i He was to return at the furthest in a fortnight, and we 
>1 were to wait for him in Sao Jeronymo. 
. The Tushaua came to pay us a visit almost every day, 
I to talk a little, and sometimes drink a cup of coffee.' 
! His wife and some of his daughters, who possessed a 
saia,’’ also often came, bringing us pacovas, mandiocca- 
cake, and other things, for which they always expected to 
be paid. We bought here a good number of stools and 
baskets, which cost five or six hooks each; also fowls, 
parrots, trumpeters, and some other tame birds. When 
we first arrived, almost the whole body of the inhabitants 
came to visit us, requesting to see what we had brought 
to sell; accordingly we spread out our whole stock of 
fish-hooks, knives, axes, mirrors, beads, arrow-heads, 
cottons and calicoes, which they handled and admired in 
