204 BRINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. [Oct. 7, 



But in this direction the most serious loss has been that of the 

 works of Father Alphonso Barsena, although these were carefully 

 copied in several examples by his disciple, Peter Agnascus. The 

 classic passage describing these is the following : 



^'Alfonsus Barsena, insatiabili animarum Christo lucrandarum 

 desiderio flagrans, communicatus cum Petro Agnasco studiis, 

 Guaranicam, Naticam, Quisoquinam, Abiponicam, Quiranguicam, 

 linguas didicit, vocabulariis, rudimentis, catechismis, et concioni- 

 bus, ad earum usum compositis ; cum tamen, antequam uterque e 

 Tucumania discederent, Tonocotanam, Kakanam, Paquinam, Qui- 

 randicam, ad praecepta et lexica eo fine reduxissent, ut sociis in 

 partem laborum Venturis, facilitatem ad eas perdiscendas adferrent. 

 Atque ut latius utilitas serperet, Petrus Agnascus pleraque, omnia ab 

 Alfonso Barsena presertim composita, elegantissimo caractere pluries 

 transcripsit, transcriptaque publici juris fecit. "^ 



Of these, the Naticas, called also Mogonas, dwelt in 1790 on the 

 upper Rio Vermejo f the Abipone is familiar ; the Tonocote I have 

 already classified, but of the others we have no positive knowledge. 



Bibliographic Note. 

 J. B. Ambrosetti : 



I. Vocabularies in Anales de la Socledad Scientifica. Argentina, 1894. 

 II. Los Indies Caingua del Alto Parana, Boletin del Institute Geograf. Ar. 

 gentin., 1895. 

 III. Materiales para el Estudio de las Lenguas del Grupo Kanagaugue, Bol. 

 de la Acad. Nac. en Cordoba. 1896. 



P. Alonso Barcena : 



I. Arte y Vocabulario de la Lengua Toba. La Plata, 1893. (Edited by 

 S. A. Lafone Quevedo.) 



GUIDO BOGGIANI : 



I. I Ciamacoco. Roma, 1894. 

 11. I Caduvei. Roma, 1895. 



XII. Vocabulario dell' Idioma Guana. Roma, 1895. 

 IV. Los Indios Chamacocos, in Revista del Institute Paraguayo, April, 



1898. 

 V. Etnografia del A.lto Paraguay, Bol. Inst. Geog. Argent., 98. 



Fr. Jose Cardus : 



I, Las Misiones Franciscanas entre los Infielesde Bolivia. Barcelona, 1886. 



Dr. G. a. CoLtNi : 



I. Notizie Storiche ed Etnografiche sopra i Guaycuru e gli Mbaya. Roma, 



1895; 



1 Nicolas del Techo, ubi supra. Lib. ii, Cap. 43. Father Barsena died in 1597. 



2 D'Orbigny, L^ Homme Americain, Tome ii, p. ii. 



