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IN EASTERN BRAZIL.

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count of it." Upon this I told them how matters stood; at which they were exceedingly glad, and the savages sailed home again in their boat. We arrived with the great ship close to where the savages dwelt, when we let go an anchor, lay there and waited for the other vessels which had parted from us in the storm, and which had yet to arrive.

And the village where the savages live is called Acuttia,^[1] and the man whom we there found was called Johann Ferdinando,^[2] a Buschkeyner from the town of Bilka, and the savages who were there were called the Carios. The latter brought us much venison and fish, for which we gave them fish-hooks.

Caput XI.

How the other ship of our fleet, in which the head pilot was, and of
which we had lost sight at sea, arrived.

After we had been there about three weeks, arrived the ship in which the head pilot was. But the third vessel had perished and of it we heard nothing more.

We again prepared to sail on; having collected six months' victual, for we had still some 300 miles to proceed by water. When we had all things ready, we one day lost the great ship in the harbour, so that the voyage was in such manner prevented.

We lay there during two years running great danger in the wilderness, and we suffered great hunger, having to eat lizards, field-rats, and other strange animals such as we could procure, also the shell-fish which hung to the rocks,

↑ Possibly Cutía (not to be pronounced Cutiá, "white"), the agouty ог "cautious animal", from acuty, to await or to look out. Near the city of S. Paulo, there is still a village of the same name, variously written Cotía, Cuttía, and Coteya. See part 2, chap. 10.
↑ Juan Hernandez, a Vizcaino, or Spanish Basque (Buschkeyner) of Bilbao (Bilka), vulgarly called Bilboa, and in Basque Ibaizabel, the capital of the Biscay or Viscaya Province.

[1] Possibly Cutía (not to be pronounced Cutiá, "white"), the agouty ог "cautious animal", from acuty, to await or to look out. Near the city of S. Paulo, there is still a village of the same name, variously written Cotía, Cuttía, and Coteya. See part 2, chap. 10.

[2] Juan Hernandez, a Vizcaino, or Spanish Basque (Buschkeyner) of Bilbao (Bilka), vulgarly called Bilboa, and in Basque Ibaizabel, the capital of the Biscay or Viscaya Province.

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