Peri hears the song
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Peri aplicou o ouvido; descendo à esplanada correu na direção donde partia a voz, que cantava com a cadência triste e melancólica particular aos índios, a seguinte endecha na língua dos Guaranis:
Peri put his ear to it; going down to the esplanade he ran toward where the voice came from, which sang, with the sad and melancholy cadence peculiar to the Indians, the following dirge in the tongue of the Guaranis:
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