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LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
Capitao  Pay :  Chieftain  of the Cayowa. Indians.
The old chief, who, together with his tribe, more than forty years ago left the forests on the Ivinheima and Iguatemy, to play more or less the part of a mediatised prince in the Aldeamento de San Ignacio on the Paranapanema, is to the present day a prototype of the good-natured sly Guarani. The preponderance of the well-armed settlers, always ready for deeds of violence and drawing nearer and nearer his native woods, and perhaps vague reminiscences and tales of the paternal government of the Jesuits, will have brought him to the conviction that it is better to live under the protection of the Pae-guassii (that is the Emperor) than to be annihilated in a hopeless resistance.
Capitao    Vei     Bang :     Chief   of    the Coboados.
A striking contrast to the last is the chief of the Coroados, living in another
Aldeamento, that of S. Jeronimo. Only after hard fighting, and when he saw that there really was no help for it, did he submit to the white man; and even now his fidelity is not always to be relied on. The following is a characteristic illustration of his supercilious pride. I once showed him my revolver, and explained that in a short time I could fire six shots with it. Well knowing the style of the braggart, who had some time before assured me, pointing to a round mark on his forehead, that the ball which had caused it had come out at the back of his head, I fully expected he would not exhibit any sign of surprise: but I was almost taken aback when, bestoY/ing a contemptuous sidelook at the weapon, and repeatedly mimicking my "piff! paff! " he gave me to understand that he could far more rapidly dispatch a greater number of whizzing, never-erring arrows!
Vignette : Means of civilising the Indians used by the Company of Jesus.