Word: curitiba
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...scurried up a palm tree and was caught. He went into paroxysms of trembling, sweating and moaning, but his captors treated him kindly, and after a while he quieted down, announced that his name was Koi and that he was a Xetá. He was sent to Curitiba, where he was taught to speak Portuguese and was brought up almost like a son by the director of the local office of the Indian Protection Service. In civilized clothes he did not look unusual except for a hole punched in his lower lip. This, Koi explained...