The Malhado’s way of life is a little weird to me. Many of these people are tall and built. They live on an island from October to the end of February. They also love their offspring’s. If a son dies the whole village joins the family in weeping. The funeral occurs after a year of mourning. All of the dead is buried except for the medicine-man. Everyone dances and celebrates until the medicine-man becomes powder. A year later His powder is presented as water that his relatives drink. Each man has wife except for the medicine-man. He has two or three wives a piece. When a daughter gets married she must take everything that her husband hunts or catches to her father’s house. The mother and father of the daughter never enter the husband’s house after the marriage. The Brides are welcome to spend time with the family of the husband.

In a house where a son or brother may have died no one is allowed to leave their house for 3months. This causes hunger in most of the houses. Three months out of every year for them they eat oysters and very bad water. Their houses are made of mats and their floor is made of oyster shells. They sleep in animal skin. These Indians stay naked except for the women who cover some parts of their body with wool that grows from trees. Their damsels dress in deerskin. They speak 2 different languages which are Capoque and Han.

The Avavares dig their own food and carry their own loads of wood and water. These Indians go naked all day and cover up at night. They don’t much food. If they were ever caught eating roasted food they would steal it from their hands. Most Indians probably wouldn’t try because they were in such a bad condition that roasted food would have caused them pain. They could digest raw food better. They also shed their skin twice a year. The sun and the air made sores on their bodies and heavy load caused cords to cut their arms.

On the island of doom the men don’t sleep with their wives from the time they find out their pregnant to two years after giving birth. This was a land of poverty so they would go many days without eating that’s why children were breast fed until they are twelve. Men sometimes leave their wives after an argument and return when they please, this is only for men with children. Family men are never to abandon their wives. If Indians are to get into a disagreement they are to fist fight until they are tired. After the fight they go live apart from each other for a while then return as friends. The Indians and the Christians have many arguments. The Christians tried to make slaves out of the Indians.