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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE

become fatter again, they would kill me before the appointed time." God knows how often I have heartily desired that I might, if it were His Godly will, die without the savages. perceiving it, that they might not work their will upon me.

Caput XXVIII.

How they took me to their chief king called Konyan Bebe, and how they treated me there.

Several days afterwards they took me to another village, which they call Arirab,^[1] to a king named Konyan Bebe,^[2]

↑ About ten miles to the east of Ubatúba Mirim is the village of Cairussú, probably that here alluded to. Half-way between the settlements runs the Pisinguara river, separating the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
↑ Thevet, the cosmographer, writes Quoniambec, and Vasconcellos Cunhambeba, whilst Varnhagen translates it O voar de Mulher, the flying of a women. Cunha is a woman, and here we may note a curious trivial resemblance with yuvh, the teterrima causa belli, the Icelandic konu, and the English quean. Bebe means flying, hence the title of Abaré bébé ("flying father") given to a travelling missionary of the six-teenth century-P. Leonardo Nunes, who came to the Brazil in 1549 with Thomé de Souza, and who distinguished himself by his prodigious activity in charitable works. Cunha Bébé was Morubixabaçú (Mburu bicho in Southey), or Great Cacique, of the whole coast between Cabo Frio and the Bertioga, and from him the Ilha dos Porcos, or, as the people will have it, dos Portos, was anciently called Tapéra (ruin, abandoned settlement) de Cunha Bébé. Thevet has left a graphic description of his tall, broad frame, terrible countenance, and wrinkled brows; his legs adorned with rings, his lower lip protruded by a "bung", and his neck encircled with cowries, to which hung in front an enemy's tooth, like the king of Dahome's favourite decoration, or a large shell, also an African ornament. Ile boasted that he had caused five thousand of his enemies to be killed and eaten, a feat which even Marshal Narvaez might have envied. He carried in bis canoe to S. Vincent the venerable F. José de Anchieta, after the lattor had been to Iperoyg (Ipperoig, the Shark water) on a mission of peace between the Tapúyas of Ubatuba and Larangeiras. It is probable that this saintly personage reconciled him to the Portuguese, for we find him in 1564 assisting Estacio de Sá in expelling the French from Rio de Janeiro,

[1] About ten miles to the east of Ubatúba Mirim is the village of Cairussú, probably that here alluded to. Half-way between the settlements runs the Pisinguara river, separating the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

[2] Thevet, the cosmographer, writes Quoniambec, and Vasconcellos Cunhambeba, whilst Varnhagen translates it O voar de Mulher, the flying of a women. Cunha is a woman, and here we may note a curious trivial resemblance with yuvh, the teterrima causa belli, the Icelandic konu, and the English quean. Bebe means flying, hence the title of Abaré bébé ("flying father") given to a travelling missionary of the six-teenth century-P. Leonardo Nunes, who came to the Brazil in 1549 with Thomé de Souza, and who distinguished himself by his prodigious activity in charitable works. Cunha Bébé was Morubixabaçú (Mburu bicho in Southey), or Great Cacique, of the whole coast between Cabo Frio and the Bertioga, and from him the Ilha dos Porcos, or, as the people will have it, dos Portos, was anciently called Tapéra (ruin, abandoned settlement) de Cunha Bébé. Thevet has left a graphic description of his tall, broad frame, terrible countenance, and wrinkled brows; his legs adorned with rings, his lower lip protruded by a "bung", and his neck encircled with cowries, to which hung in front an enemy's tooth, like the king of Dahome's favourite decoration, or a large shell, also an African ornament. Ile boasted that he had caused five thousand of his enemies to be killed and eaten, a feat which even Marshal Narvaez might have envied. He carried in bis canoe to S. Vincent the venerable F. José de Anchieta, after the lattor had been to Iperoyg (Ipperoig, the Shark water) on a mission of peace between the Tapúyas of Ubatuba and Larangeiras. It is probable that this saintly personage reconciled him to the Portuguese, for we find him in 1564 assisting Estacio de Sá in expelling the French from Rio de Janeiro,

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