198 BRINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. [Oct. 7,. 



These must have been a band of the Chiriguanos who have recently 

 wandered there. 



The Ara-chanes {uara-che-ana, '' men our cousins "), located by 

 early writers on the Paraguay about south latitude 3o°-3i°, were 

 obviously a Guarani horde. Ameghino quotes authorities to show 

 that there were ''reductions " of Chanas who were pure Guaranis 

 on the Rio Carcaranal and the Rio Arecife.^ 



In spite of the identity in appearance and language of the 

 Chaneses among the Chiriguanos, there is a tradition that they are 

 of a different stock, all their adults having been slain and the 

 children adopted by the Chiriguanos. For this reason the latter 

 call them tapiii, slaves, while the Chaneses addresses a Chiriguano as 

 cheya, ' ' my master. 



> >2 



The Charuas and Querandies. 



Acarete du Biscay, writing in 1658, says, " The country on the 

 north side of the river de la Plata is inhabited by none but savages 

 called Charruas.''^^ 



A wild, nomadic, equestrian nation of this name roamed over 

 the same territory a century later and are described by Father 

 Gaetano Cattaneo as intractable to the best efforts of the mission- 

 aries.^ 



Finally, about 1832, they were destroyed, as a tribe, by the 

 whites, though probably individuals of them survived the assaults. 



They appear to have extended north as far as 30° and to have 

 occupied most of the area of Uruguay and parts of the Brazilian 

 province of Rio Grande do Sul. 



The linguistic affiliation of this extended people has not been 

 discovered. 



They are believed by I.afone Quevedo to have belonged to the 

 Guaycuru stock, ^ but their name, which is Guarani {cJie, my, 



^ F. Ameghino, La Antiguedad del Hombre eji el Plata ^ Tome i, Cap. viii. 

 Other evidence is in the « Repartimiento," of 1582, published by Outes ; op. 

 cit. App, 3 ; but I do not signify this distribution of the Guaranis, as it seems to 

 have been effected by the Spaniards. 



2 El Colegio Franciscano de Tarija y sas Misiones, p. 54 (Queracchi, 1884). 



' Voyage to Buenos Aires, p. 28. 



* His letters are appended to Muratori's // Cristianesimo Felice nel Para- 

 guai (ytmce, 1743). 



^ In Bole tin del Instittito Geografico Argentino, 1894, p. 524. 



