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ventions ; but this is not the case with the rest 

 of the . nation, ^ for those of the Guaycurus In- 

 dians who possess the extensive unknown lands 

 to the west of the river, have no intercourse what- 

 ever' with the Portuguese. Among the savage 

 Guaycurus, there are several tribes, such as the 

 Lingoas, the Cambas and the Xiriquanhos, the last 

 of whom sometimes even make hostile expeditions 

 against the Spaniards of the province of Santa 

 Cruz de la Sierra. They make use of bows and 

 arrows, a club from two to three feet long, and a 

 lance from twelve to fifteen feet long, which they arm 

 with an iron pohit. They almost always make their 

 expeditions on horseback, using instead of a bridle, 

 a single cord made of the fibres of the ananas 

 leaves. They wear a bandage round the body, 

 which holds their club on the right side, and their 

 hunting-knife on the left, and by di'awing which 

 very tight they preserve themselves, like many 

 other Indian tribes, against the sensations of hun- 

 ger, to which they are frequently exposed on such 

 expeditions. They guide the horse with the left 

 hand, and carry in the right the bow and arrows 

 or the lance. In their wars with the other Indians 

 and the Paulistas, who engage them by land, they 

 are said to have a custom of driving together large 

 herds of wild horses and oxen, and to let them 

 loose upon the enemy, who being thrown into 

 disorder by this attack, are the less able to make 

 any resistance to them. 



The use of the horse among these Indians is as 



