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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE

shout, the savages shouted also, so that our besieged friends might not hear us, for they could not see us on account of a wood which lay between us. But otherwise we were so near them that they might well have heard us, if the savages had not shouted in such manner.

We brought the victuals into the settlement; and when the savages then saw that they could accomplish nothing, they desired peace and again departed. The siege lasted nearly a month, of the savages several remained dead, but of the Christians none.

When we saw that the savages had again become peaceable, we departed once more for our great ship, which lay before Marin; there we took in water, also mandioca meal for food. The commander of the settlement Marin thanked us.

Caput V.

How we sailed from Prannenbucke to a country called Buttugaris,^[1]
came upon a French ship, and engaged it.

Thence we sailed forty miles off to a harbour, named Buttugaris, where we purposed to load the ship with Brazil wood, and also to pillage some victuals from the savages.

↑ As has been said in the introduction, Potyguaras would mean shrimpers (Jaboatam uses Pytiguaras) and Petyguaras tobacco smokers. Alencar (Iracema, p. 167) finds difficulty in explaining the word, which he says is corrupted from "iby-tira", a highland (i. e., iby land + tira, high), and yara, owner of. Thus Pytiguara from Ibyticuara would be the Lord of Highlands, which their enemies changed to shrimp-eater, from poty, a shrimp, and uara, eater. Others write Pytagoares. Gabriel Soares assigns to his Pytiguaras a hundred leagues of coast between Parnahyba and the Jagoaribe or Rio Grande. Others locate them between the Parahyba do Norte and the Rio Grande do Norte, and give them as headquarters the Serra de Copaoba. Fierce and savage, they were much feared by their neighbours, and they are said to have numbered from twenty thousand to thirty thousand bows. They were held to be next in dignity to the Tabayarás, with whom they had implacable feuds, because the latter took part with the Portuguese, and, allying

[p143-1] As has been said in the introduction, Potyguaras would mean shrimpers (Jaboatam uses Pytiguaras) and Petyguaras tobacco smokers. Alencar (Iracema, p. 167) finds difficulty in explaining the word, which he says is corrupted from "iby-tira", a highland (i. e., iby land + tira, high), and yara, owner of. Thus Pytiguara from Ibyticuara would be the Lord of Highlands, which their enemies changed to shrimp-eater, from poty, a shrimp, and uara, eater. Others write Pytagoares. Gabriel Soares assigns to his Pytiguaras a hundred leagues of coast between Parnahyba and the Jagoaribe or Rio Grande. Others locate them between the Parahyba do Norte and the Rio Grande do Norte, and give them as headquarters the Serra de Copaoba. Fierce and savage, they were much feared by their neighbours, and they are said to have numbered from twenty thousand to thirty thousand bows. They were held to be next in dignity to the Tabayarás, with whom they had implacable feuds, because the latter took part with the Portuguese, and, allying

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