1898.] BRINTOX — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. 183. 



that it is of a very ancient type, and, apart from a certain number 

 of borrowed words, is a wholly independent stock. 



The Guaycuru Stock. 



The second stock has received the name Guaycuru, a Tupi word 

 meaning "fast runners."^ Mr. Lafone Quevedo does not acknowl- 

 edge a fundamental distinction between this and the preceding 

 group of tongues,- but the evidence seems to me insufficient to 

 blend them in one. 



They almost surrounded the Matacos on three sides, the south, 

 east and north, and extended on the eastern bank of the river Para- 

 guay as far as S. lat. 19° 30' into the Brazilian province of Mato 

 Grosso. In the south they roved as far as to 33° lat. south, 

 where they were in contact with the Pampean tribes. 



One of their most redoubtable members were the Tobas, called 

 by the Spanish Frentones or Frontones, from their habit of shaving 

 the forehead. In modern times they have occupied the shores of 

 the lower Pilcomayo, and have been reported at various localities 

 along its banks quite up to its rapids (Cardus, i ; Thouar, i).* The 

 Pilagas are a closely related horde. 



The large majority of this stock lived west of the great river; 

 but in tlie south the Abipones and Mepones were found in the last 

 century east of the river about lat. 28°; and in the north all the 

 left bank, from Fort Coimbra to Puerto Casado, was peopled by 

 tribes of the Guaycuru stock, locally known as Quetiadegodis or 

 Uettiadiu, and Eyiguayegis or Eggiudgeg, the modern Mbayas and 

 Caduveos (Boggiani, iv, p. 171). 



The dialectic variations in this stock may be seen in the sub- 

 joined table. 



1 Lafone Quevedo considers this word a diminutive from the root ai, rogue ^ 

 but I think that von Martins is right in considering it composed of atd or guatd, 

 to go ; curitei, quickly ; tiara, men. Some writers have objected to the use of 

 this collective name for the stock on the ground that it is a common noun, and 

 does not apply to a single nation. The same objection would be applicable to 

 many nomitia gentilia in common use [e. g. Aryans, Semites) and is therefore a 

 needless criticism. There are reasons why it is not desirable to choose the name 

 of a single tribe for the whole stock. 



2" El grupo iSIataco es una subclase mas del gran grupo Guaycuru." {^Bol. 

 Inst. Geog. Argentiu, 1894, p. 518.) 



^ M. Thouar (1, pp. 419-421) gives vocabularies of the Toba on the lower 

 and on the upper Pilcomayo. 



