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...years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian population is down to an estimated 78,000 and falling steadily every year...
Brazil's history is studded with examples of unspeakable cruelty to the dark-skinned natives who lived there uncounted centuries before Cabral. Early Portuguese colonizers enslaved natives by the thousands to work the sugar plantations, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others. Jesuit missionaries, serving as the Indians' first "protectors," instead became their oppressors by herding them into new settlements so that their lands could be more easily confiscated. Dreaded mame-luko* raiders-crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers...
...second period, the Crimson began to play the kind of lacrosse it did on the spring trip and in the early stages of the season. The defense tightened up and cleared beautifully, while Manual Cabral and Jerry Pyle each scored one goal. At the half, the varsity trailed...
...minutes of the third period, the Crimson continued to dominate the game, battling back to an 8-4 count on goals by Cabral and Nick Lamont. At 10:11 of the period, however, U.N.H. scored its ninth goal, and from then on the Crimson had no chance. Late in the third period, Dick Parks scored the varsity's fifth goal...
Supplementing Bohn's eight goals, Jerry Pyle scored three and Manuel Cabral, two. Leo Ullman converted from goalie to attack and flipped in one tally to round out the scoring...