196 BEINTON— LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. [Oct. 7, 



that tribe. He thought their language differed ''quant au fond," 

 but apparently did not examine it closely, and considered them of 

 the same stock. This means simply that some of the Abipons 

 wore the labret. 



Another tribe of Lenguas lived and still live on the right bank 

 of the river Paraguay, about latitude 21°. They wear the labret, 

 and have been recently visited by several travelers. Some of 

 these speak a Guaycuru dialect, according to Boggiani and Colini, 

 though Cardus reports authority that some are Guaranis. Possibly 

 two tribes residing in the same region, though of diverse stocks, 

 may wear the tembeta. 



Further down stream, in the angle of the R. Paraguay and 

 R. Pilcomayo near Asuncion, is another group of Lenguas. Mr. 

 Lafone Quevedo states that they belong to the Mataco (Enimaga) 

 stock ; and this is confirmed by their numerals quoted by Father 

 Cardus, as the following comparison illustrates : 



The Lenguas whom M. Demersay found in this locality (i860) 

 lived north of the Rio Pilcomayo, near the Quartel del Cerrito, 

 and were fast disappearing.^ 



Under the Tupi appellative, Timbues, tribes wearing the labret 

 were reported by Pedro Mendoza on the Paraguay about where the 

 Mataco Lenguas were later found, and doubtless were the same.'^ 



Others were on the lower Parana in early times (located latitude 

 33°, longitude 62° by Lafone Quevedo, ix, pp. 9-1 1. and 35). 

 Their language is unknown, and they are long since extinct in that 

 locality. 



The same name, Timbois, Tembetas, always for the same reason, 

 was applied to a tribe in the northern Chaco, speaking either Tupi 

 or Chiquito (Lafone Quevedo, ix, p. 11), and to a band of the 

 Chiriguanos (Cardus, i, p. 242). 



^ Le Tour du Monde, Tome iv, p. loS. 



' Coleti, Diccionario Storico-geografico delV America Meridionaley s. v. 

 (Venice, 177 1). 



