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140 BOTIIWELL BOTOCUDOS its consummation he aided the flight of Mary and Darnley to Dunbar castle, then under his control. On the return of the royal pair to Edinburgh Mary compelled Bothwell's bitterest enemies, Murray and Argyle, to go through the form of reconciliation with him. Many mat- ters of moment were intrusted to him. Among these was the task of quelling a disturbance at Liddesdale, where he was severely wounded. Mary, who was at Jedburgh when this oc- curred, on hearing of his danger rode to Her- mitage Castle, where he was lying, making the journey of 20 miles and returning the same day an exertion which threw her into a vio- lent fever, during which Bothwell in his turn hastened to visit her, though he was obliged to be conveyed to Jedburgh. The nature of the relations between him and the queen from this time forward has been the subject of a vio- lent historical controversy between the assail- ants and defenders of Mary ; but the following summary is confined to facts which are not denied by either party. (See MART STUART.) The belief that Bothwell aspired to the hand of Mary now began to gain ground. He was one of the foremost in urging her to consent to a divorce, and he was certainly a leader in the conspiracy for Darnley's murder. Prosecuted by Darnley's father, the earl of Lennox, he was acquitted after a shamelessly partial trial, and shortly afterward his lands and offices were confirmed to him by a statute alluding to the queen's appreciation of his " gret and mani- fold gude service " to her and the nation. The day after the closing of parliament a number of leading nobles met at Ainsley, and drew up the paper called " the Ainslie Bond," whereby they expressed their approval of Bothwell's ac- quittal, proposed his marriage with the queen, and agreed to aid him in attaining this object and to defend it when attained. On April 24, 1567, as Mary was on her return from Stirling, Bothwell with a large body of men met her near Linlithgow, at Almond bridge, and overpowering her party carried her away to his castle of Dunbar, whether with or with- out the queen's consent is a matter of dis- pute. Bothwell now succeeded in procuring a full divorce from his wife, and in May he brought the queen to Edinburgh, where the banns of his marriage with her were published. On May 12 Mary, after she had solemnly declar- ed that she was influenced only by her own will, signed a full pardon of Bothwell and his allies for their abduction of herself. She also created Bothwell duke of Orkney, and on May 15 was married to him at Holyrood. This step aroused the popular indignation to the point of armed resistance. The hostilities which followed in June culminated in the surrender of Mary at Carberry hill, and Bothwell fled to Dunbar, whence, being deserted by his former allies, and ordered to leave the country within twelve days, he took refuge in the Orkney islands. Pursued for acts of piracy committed in expe- ditions which he undertook, he fled to Den- mark, and after a short period of impunity was imprisoned in the castle of Malmo, then belonging to the Danish king. Here he spent the remaining years of his life. BOTOCl'OOS (Port, botogne, a barrel hung), the name given by the Portuguese to a tribe of Tupayas Indians of Brazil, from their custom of wearing flat disks of wood in slits cut in the ears and under lip. By the coast Indians they were called Aymbor6s or Aimores. According to tradition, they were driven from the north, and took up their habitation W. of a mountain range since called after them Serra dos Aym- bores, separating the present provinces of Espi- into Santo and Bahia from that of Minas Geraes. They call themselves Engereckmung, the sig- nification of which is unknown. In Espirito Santo and Bahia they are commonly called Bugres, derived by Tschudi from the French, but apparently without warrant. They rarely approached the seashore, but in their oc- casional descents they gained a terrible rep- utation among the coast tribes, who regarded Botocudos. them with horror and as irrational beings, un- skilled in the arts of hut building and of deco- rating their persons with feathers and other gaudy trappings. So strong was their antipa- thy to water, that their intended victim might always find safety by plunging into a river. They are of medium height, broad-shouldered, large-bodied, and muscular, their legs and arms, nevertheless, appearing soft, thin, and eft'eini- nate. There is a great variety of features among them, but in general they have low foreheads and small, black, piercing eyes, the exterior angles of which are usually oblique as in the Mongolian race, but blue eyes are not infre- quent ; small noses, at times somewhat arched at the base, especially in the women, and with wide alas; small mouths; the lips are usually thick, though some individuals have very thin lips. Their cheek bones are much less prominent than in their neighbors of the Tupi-Guarani family. The hair on the head is thin, and when not allowed to fall over the forehead is