Crossword-Solution: BOTOCUDO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Even in the Botocudo or the Australian, scientific speculation has its germ in actual experience."(3) It will be shown later that the food of the savage intellectual appetite is offered and consumed in the shape of explanatory myths.

Now and then a case is met with in which the numeral word frankly avows its meaning--as in the Botocudo language, where 1 is expressed by _podzik_, finger, and 2 by _kripo_, double finger;[66] and in the Eskimo dialect of Hudson's Bay, where _eerkitkoka_ means both 10 and little finger.[67] Such cases are, however, somewhat exceptional.

The Botocudo are pure nomads, roaming naked in the woods in quest of the roots, berries, honey, frogs, snakes, grubs, man, and other larger game which form their diet, and are eaten raw or else cooked in huge bamboo canes.

But this embellishment is called _tembeitera_ by the Brazilians, and Botocudo may perhaps be connected with _betó-apoc_, the native name of the ear-plug.

The natural lines have been broken, perverted, and caricatured by balloon sleeves, huge farthingales, or paniers like a jennet's pack-saddles, the incredible Botocudo ideal of the bustle, corsets like hour-glasses, concentric hoops about the legs, with pantalets coquetting inanely at the ankles--the almost impossible facts of fashion.