_Aviador_: properly, _aviator_, but has special meaning on the Amazon; is applied to the dealer who supplies the _seringaes_ with outfit and food for the season, and who purchases the rubber crop. The _aviado_ is the customer of the _aviador_. _Bateia_: bowl for washing out placer gold. _Borracha_: any kind of rubber in Brazilian; the term _goma_ is also sometimes used, but applied only to latex of _hevea brasiliensis_. _Braços_: lit. “arms,” that is, labourers; hands. _Cabotagem_: Brazilian navigation, whether coastal or riverine. _Caipira_: countryman from the south—“hayseed.” The equivalent type from the north is a _matuto_. _Capoeira_: second growth of vegetation after land has been cleared. Also applied to kind of basket made of native grass; also to the Brazilian equivalent to jiu-jit-su; genuine capoeira adepts have remarkable muscular control. The term _capoeira_ is also applied to a certain dance. _Capim_: grass (plural, _capins_) of different kinds, as _capim gordura_, capim panasco, capim sertão, etc. _Carioca_: native of Rio de Janeiro City—from the Carioca fountain, once fashionable centre of city. _Carreiro_: by-path of the interior. _Colono_: labourer imported, whether from another country or a sister State. _Conto_: (of reis); one thousand milreis, or 1,000,000 reis. In paper, worth normally over £66, but since European War value fluctuates about £50, or say $250. _Engenho_: sugar mill. _Estrada de Ferro_: railroad; _Rede ferroviario_, railway system, lit. “net” of railways. _Fazenda_: in South, any farm or estate of coffee, cacao, cattle, etc.; in north more exclusively applied to cattle farm. _Fazendeiro_, farmer or estate owner. _Fallencia_: failure, bankruptcy. _Farinha_: flour. — de mandioca, of two kinds “white” and “yellow,” made from root of one of the Euphorbias. _Feijão_: beans, red, black or white, universal Brazilian food; _feijoada_, special dish made with beans, dried meat, pepper, mandioca flour, etc. _Flagellados_: lit. “the scourged,” applied to people from the northern drought districts. _Fluminense_: native of Rio de Janeiro State, from Lat. flumen, river; Portuguese discoverers thought Rio Bay mouth of a river, and so named it “River of January.” There is no river, but the name remains, and the _fluminenses_ are proud to call themselves “river folk.” _Frigorifico_: cold storage, properly; applied to packing-houses also. _Gaiola_: properly, cage; also applied to small open boats traversing Amazonian fluvial network. _Garimpeiros_: diamond hunters of Brazilian interior.