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8000 of them have been converted to Christianity by the mis- 

 sionaries, one of whom, Father A. M. Corrado, published some 

 years since a book of devotion in the tongue.^ 



The difference of its vocables from the foregoing is seen in the 

 following examples : 



Man, aba. Eye, exa. 



Woman, ciina. Ear, inanvi. 



Sun, ctiarasi. Nose, inapongtia. 



Moon, yasi, yiiai. Hand, ypo. 



Fire, tata. Foot, ypul. 



Water, i. House, oga. 

 Head, fiaca. 



The name Chiriguanos is supposed to be a term of contempt 

 applied to them by the Quechuas (= esticrcol frio). They call 

 themselves ^^<:?, "men." 



One of their branches, the Tapiis or Tapietes, extend as far south 

 as the Pilcomayo, and in scattered bands nearly to the R. Paraguay 

 (Card us, i, p. 269). Their name is given them as a term of con- 

 tempt by the Chiriguanos, because they go quite naked. It signifies 

 the male or female genitalia (Tupi, tap'i)." For the same reason 

 they are called Tirumbae, "naked men." M. Thouar found their 

 westernmost village at Yagaigua, longitude 65° (Thouar, i, p. 305). 

 They wear the tembeta, and are friendly {id., p. "^"^^y). 



The Guaranocas, one of their branches, inhabit the " Chaco de 

 Antonio," within the territory of Bolivia.^ The Yanaiguas, the Pal- 

 mares and the Sirionas (on the Rio Peray) are other branches (Car- 

 dus, i, p. 272). 



At the time of the discovery this stock occupied much of the east 

 of the map, extending along the left bank of the Rio Paraguay 

 from about latitude 23° to 30° and below."* Here they bore the 

 names Cainguas and Guayanas, up the river, and Caracaraes and 



^ Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana en Leiigua C/iirigttana (Sucre, 187 1), 

 A short grammatical outline of the dialect is given in the work El Colegio 

 Franciscano de Tarija y sus Misio7ies, pp. 523-526. 



2 It is also applied to the Chaneses of the foothills (Cardus, i, p. 250), Another 

 derivation of it is from tapiii, something bought, = a slave, Tarija y sus 

 Misiones, p. 54. 



3 F. de Oliveira Cesar, Viaje al Oriente de Bolivia, p. 77 (Buenos Aires, 

 1891). 



* Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, " Ethnographische Karte von Brasilien," in Petermann's 

 Miitheilujtgen, 1891. 



