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IN EASTERN BRAZIL.

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Caput XIV.

How Sancte Vincente is situated.

Sancte Vincente^[1] is an island, which lies close to the mainland, therein are two hamlets. One is called in the Portuguese language S. Vincente, but in the savage tongue Orbioneme, the other lies about two miles therefrom, and is called Uwawa Supe. Besides these there are also in the islands sundry houses called Ingenio,^[2] and in these sugar is made.

And the Portuguese who live therein have for allies a tribe of Brazilians who are called the Tuppin Ikin,^[3] and the territory of this nation extends some eighty miles inwards, and about forty miles along the sea-coast.

This tribe has on both sides enemies, on the south side and also on the north side. Their foes on the south side are called the Carios, and those on the north side are known as the Tuppin Imba. They are also called by their enemies

↑ In Purchas (v, 1242), we find the island of St. Vincent called Warapisuma, which Varnhagen (1, 53) explains by the Guará, Ibis Rubra, or Tantalus Ruber (Linn.), there common (see also H. Stade, chap. 19). The historian (1, 141) seems to identify Uwawa, or as he writes it, Iwawasupe with Enguaguaçu, "signifying the Monjôlo, or great mortar, a name taken from one of the primitive sugar-plantations there established". Fray Gaspar also writes "Engua", which should be "Indoá", and makes the rim of the fanciful mortar—it is now called by a name more expressive but less polite—to consist of the hills of Santos Island, and the tall semi-circular ridge of the coast range (Serra Acima) which appears almost to encircle the islet. Uwawa Supe may have occupied the site where Santos afterwards rose, the first tenement being a Casa de Misericordia, built by Braz Cubas in 1543.
↑ Engenho throughout the Brazil means a sugar-plantation and its works, which, as an old author remarks, truly denote the genius and the ingenuity of man. The word is explained by the author in chapter 18.
↑ Southey (1, 189), remarks upon this passage, "It seems that the Goaynazes had left the country." But possibly this tribe is included under the Tupiniquins, or Tupi neighbours.

[1] In Purchas (v, 1242), we find the island of St. Vincent called Warapisuma, which Varnhagen (1, 53) explains by the Guará, Ibis Rubra, or Tantalus Ruber (Linn.), there common (see also H. Stade, chap. 19). The historian (1, 141) seems to identify Uwawa, or as he writes it, Iwawasupe with Enguaguaçu, "signifying the Monjôlo, or great mortar, a name taken from one of the primitive sugar-plantations there established". Fray Gaspar also writes "Engua", which should be "Indoá", and makes the rim of the fanciful mortar—it is now called by a name more expressive but less polite—to consist of the hills of Santos Island, and the tall semi-circular ridge of the coast range (Serra Acima) which appears almost to encircle the islet. Uwawa Supe may have occupied the site where Santos afterwards rose, the first tenement being a Casa de Misericordia, built by Braz Cubas in 1543.

[2] Engenho throughout the Brazil means a sugar-plantation and its works, which, as an old author remarks, truly denote the genius and the ingenuity of man. The word is explained by the author in chapter 18.

[3] Southey (1, 189), remarks upon this passage, "It seems that the Goaynazes had left the country." But possibly this tribe is included under the Tupiniquins, or Tupi neighbours.

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