The author at first intended to publish his work in a volume of about 150 pages, to be presented to the Congress of Americanists at Buenos Aires in 1910. A much enlarged edition was destroyed in the fire of the Imprensa nacional at Rio de Janeiro, September, 1910, five or six incomplete copies being saved, one of which is now in the possession of the Library of Congress. The present edition contains an outline of grammar, a series of phrases arranged by topics and gathered in conversation with two Kashinaua Indians, and a glossary, Portuguese-Kashinaua, and Kashinaua-Portuguese. cf. Pref.