Crossword-Solution: MATO 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Mato saw them, but appeared not at all concerned and was still intent upon dislodging the girl, who clung frantically to her perch.

Every Indian was alive to the possibilities of the occasion, for it is well known that Mato, or grizzly bear, alone among animals is given the rank of a warrior, so that whoever conquers him may wear an eagle feather.

But arrows were many and well-aimed, and in a few minutes the great and warlike Mato lay dead at the foot of the tree.

The patches of wood look like copses in the middle of green meadows; they are called by the natives “ilhas de mato,” or islands of jungle; the name being, no doubt, suggested by their compactness of outline, neatly demarcated in insular form from the smooth carpet of grass, around them.

The slave hunters in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall not be far wrong in assuming that the man with the cryptogram was a fitting comrade for his fellow _“capitaes do mato.”_ Torres--for that was his name--unlike the majority of his companions, was neither half-breed, Indian, nor negro.