Martijn M. van den Bel, Ph.D. (2015), Leiden University, is an archaeologist and excavates in French Guiana and the French Lesser Antilles. He is interested in encounters between Amerindians and Europeans during the seventeenth century.Mariana Françozo, Ph.D. (2009), Unicamp, is an anthropologist and a historian. She is associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the editor of Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Routledge, 2023).

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Before Meeting the Tapuia2 The Tapuia Deal3 Indirect Indigenous Rule and the Portuguese Revolt4 Tapuia LifeNote on the Translation1 Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1628)2 Description of Pernambuco or Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1637)3 Interrogation of Andries Tacoe (1631)4 Memoir of Marcilliean (C. 1631)5 Letter of Pedro Potij (C. 1631)6 First Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)7 Second Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)8 Description by Gerrit Hulck (1635)9 Description by Elias Herckmans (1639)10 Description by Zacharias Wagener (1641)11 Description by Gerardus Vossius (1641)12 Description by Johannes de Laet (1644)13 Journal of Jacob Rabbi (1648)14 Description by Caspar van Baerle (1647)15 Journal of Roulox Baro (1651)EpilogueGlossaryBilbiographyIndex

Martijn M. van den Bel, Ph.D. (2015), Leiden University, is an archaeologist and excavates in French Guiana and the French Lesser Antilles. He is interested in encounters between Amerindians and Europeans during the seventeenth century.Mariana Françozo, Ph.D. (2009), Unicamp, is an anthropologist and a historian. She is associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the editor of Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Routledge, 2023).

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Before Meeting the Tapuia2 The Tapuia Deal3 Indirect Indigenous Rule and the Portuguese Revolt4 Tapuia LifeNote on the Translation1 Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1628)2 Description of Pernambuco or Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1637)3 Interrogation of Andries Tacoe (1631)4 Memoir of Marcilliean (C. 1631)5 Letter of Pedro Potij (C. 1631)6 First Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)7 Second Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)8 Description by Gerrit Hulck (1635)9 Description by Elias Herckmans (1639)10 Description by Zacharias Wagener (1641)11 Description by Gerardus Vossius (1641)12 Description by Johannes de Laet (1644)13 Journal of Jacob Rabbi (1648)14 Description by Caspar van Baerle (1647)15 Journal of Roulox Baro (1651)EpilogueGlossaryBilbiographyIndex