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AN INDIAN FAMILY. 
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additional assistance, to pass ; and twelve were so high 
and furious as to require the canoe to be entirely un- 
loaded, and either pulled over the dry and often very 
precipitous rocks, or with almost equal difficulty up the 
margin of the fall At Caruru, as I have said, four-and- 
twenty men were scarcely able to pull my empty canoe 
over the rock, though plentifully strewn with branches 
and bushes, to smooth the asperities which would other- 
wise much damage the bottom : this was the reason 
why I purchased the Tushaua’s smaller oba, to proceed ; 
and it was well I did, or I might otherwise have had to 
return without ever reaching the locality I had at length 
attained. 
The next day, the 13th, I was employed figuring some 
new fish brought me the preceding evening. My hunt- 
ers went out and brought me nothing but a common 
hawk. In the afternoon, the father and brother of the 
Indian I had found in the house, arrived, with their wives 
and families ; so now, with my six Indians and two 
hunters, we were pretty full ; some of them however slept 
in a shed, and we were as comfortably accommodated 
as could be expected. The wives of the father and two 
sons were perfectly naked, and were, moreover, appa- 
rently quite unconscious of the fact. The old woman 
possessed a '' saia,’' or petticoat, which she sometimes put 
on, and seemed then almost as much ashamed of herself 
as civilized people would be if they took theirs off. So 
powerful is the effect of education and habit ! 
Having been told by Senhor Chagas that there was 
an excellent hunter in the Codiari, a river which enters 
from the north a 'short distance above Mucura, I sent 
