caceque

Updated: May 1, 2025

This surely means no more than that their rude looms were upright or perpendicular. The probable use of these swaths may have been to defend the legs in forcing their way through the thorny brakes of the forests. The author seems to have forgotten that he had only a little before mentioned this very woman as the wife of a caceque.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time