THE GUARANIS. 



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THE GUARANIS. 



The tribes of the Guaranis, or Waraus, who once inhabited 

 the eastern side of the continent, from the La Plata to the 

 Orinoco, still exist, sunk still lower in barbarism even than 

 formerly. So little do they care for clothing, that even the 



GUARANI INDIANS. 



females wear only a small piece of the bark of a tree, or the 

 net-like covering of the young leaf of the cocoa-nut or cab- 

 bage-palm ; while their appearance is squalid in the extreme. 

 They still, however, exhibit the characteristics which dis- 



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