INHABITANTS OF BOLIVIA. 



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Occasionally this term Chuncho is applied in a special way to those Mosetenes 

 who have remained pagans, who dwell on the banks of the Beni, and who are thus 

 distino-uished from the Christian Mosetenes and Lecos. The absolutely incorrect 

 name Guarayos is applied in a still more hostile sense to the Indians who roam the 

 dense forests between the E,ios Madre de Dios and Madidi. In this region 



Fig. 142. — Aboeiginai Populations of Bolivia. 

 Scale 1 : 18,000,000. 



West or Uf~eenw\cn 



Oto50 

 Fathoms. 



50 to 500 

 Fathoms. 



Depths. 



.WO to 1.000 

 Fathoms. 



1 000 to 2,000 

 Fathoms. 



2 000 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



310 Miles. 



Guarayos has acquired the sense of " enemy," and from it is even derived a 

 verb meaning "to kill." 



The whites have little knowledge of these pretended Guarayos, who differ so 

 greatly from the true Guarayos of Guarani origin. They, in fact, give a wide 

 berth to these wild forest tribes, who go nearly naked, except on feast-days, when 

 they strut about arrayed in flowing mantles. Daring boatmen, they use fire to 

 hollow out canoes, 50 feet long, formed of a single trunk, and also make swords 



