Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . LIP-ORNAMENT OF THE SOUTHAMERICAN INDIAN. * Dr. Latham says, With two exceptions, the distribution of the numerous dia-lects and subdialects of the Tupi-Guarani tongue is the most remarkable in theworld,—the exceptions being the Malay and the Athabascan tongues. 472 Brazil and the Brazilians. dispersed, and there only remain as their descendants the Bota-cudos, a few hundred of whom still—now peacefully—wander uponthe banks of the rivers Doce and Bellemonte. These Indians,like many of the savages of South America, w
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . LIP-ORNAMENT OF THE SOUTHAMERICAN INDIAN. * Dr. Latham says, With two exceptions, the distribution of the numerous dia-lects and subdialects of the Tupi-Guarani tongue is the most remarkable in theworld,—the exceptions being the Malay and the Athabascan tongues. 472 Brazil and the Brazilians. dispersed, and there only remain as their descendants the Bota-cudos, a few hundred of whom still—now peacefully—wander uponthe banks of the rivers Doce and Bellemonte. These Indians,like many of the savages of South America, wear the most absurdornaments of light wood, (the aloe,) which they at pleasure insertand take out from slits in their ears and lips. But the question naturally arises, What have become of thenumerous tribes once inhabiting the sea-coast and those provinceswhere now a civilized population most abound ? Where are theTupi-Guarani ? Many wandered to remote parts of the Empire;. OTACUDO FAMILY ON THE MARCH. European diseases and vices, as well as war and the march ofcivilization, swept them from their places. The Guarani of SouthBrazil, under the Jesuits, reached a certain degree of advance-ment ; but the inhuman Portuguese slave-hunter, who pushed hisway as far as Bolivia, with ruthless hands broke up the missionsand led them into captivity, and they soon melted away beforecruel taskmasters. Of the Tupinambas and the Tamoyos, whodwelt in the present provinces of Bio de Janeiro and Minas-Geraes, the former were exterminated, and the latter were soconstantly harassed and defeated in war by the colonists, that,though for a long time wanting unanimit}^, they finally were per-suaded by the eloquence of an influential and eminent chief (JappyAssu,—a second Orgetorix) to emigrate to the distant- North,— Resemblance of the Aborigines to the Dyaks. 473 then more than three thousand miles from their former home,—and they settled upon the southern bank of the Ama
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