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lamas, horses, ostriches (rheas), and other animals. The horse is everythimr 

 to them ; and their dwellings consist at the most of light tents of skins or 

 rushes. {PI. S5, Jig. 6, huts and graves of the southern Patagonians ; pi. 33., 

 Jig. 7, Patagonians in their camp.) 



2. The Puelches dwell between the Rio Negro and the Rio Colorado ; 

 especially on the banks of the latter. 3. The Charruas east of Urucruav, 

 north of latitude 31° south. 4. The Mhocohis or Tohas fill the greatest part 

 of Chaco, in latitudes 21° to 32° south. 5. The Mataguayos from 22° to 

 28° south latitude. 6. The Abipones. 7. The Lenguas. 8. The Payaguas. 

 9. The Mbayos, and 10, the Guaycouros. {PL 35, fig. 3, charge of horse 

 by the Guaycouros.) The latter are a tribe now almost unknown, who 

 used to live on the banks of the Gran Chacos. 



The Ohlquitos, the American aborigines of the province of Chiquito, are 

 light brownish olive-colored. Their medium height is 5 feet 1 J inches ; the 

 figure moderately robust ; the face full and round ; the forehead arched ; the 

 nose short, and little flattened ; the mouth moderate, with thin, small, 

 projecting lips ; the eyes are horizontal, sometimes moderately slit at the 

 outer side ; the cheek-bones not prominent ; the features eflfeminate, and the 

 physiognomy indicating vigilance, vivacity, and cheerfulness. We divide 

 them into the following nations : The Chiquitos, Samucus, Curaves, Tapiis, 

 Corabecas, Saravecas, Otuquis or Otukes, Curuminacas, Covarecas, Curu- 

 canecas, and Paiconecas. 



The Moxos inhabit the province of Moxos ; are olive-brown in complex- 

 ion, but not very dark ; their medium height is five feet, one inch, and eight 

 lines ; the limbs are robust ; the forehead is slightly arched ; the mouth of 

 moderate size ; the lips are somewhat projecting ; the eyes horizontal and 

 not slit ; the cheek-bones not very prominent, and the physiognomy is 

 mild. They are divided into the following nations : The Moxos, Cha- 

 pacuras, Cayuvavas, Pacaguaras, Itenes, Itonamas, Canichanas, and Mo- 

 vimas. 



The Guaranis or Caribs. This great stock displays in general a yellow 

 complexion, intermixed with very pale red ; the medium height is five feet ; 

 the forms are very massive ; the forehead is not retreating ; the face 

 full and circular ; the nose short and narrow ; the nostrils are 

 narrow ; the mouth moderate-sized, not projecting, with small lips ; the 

 eyes frequently stand obliquely, and are always elevated at the exterior 

 angle ; the cheek-bones are not very prominent, and the features are mostly 

 soft and delicate. The Guaranis, who might be called the Brazilian stock, 

 after the country in which they more especially dwell, occupy .the entire 

 eastern moiety of South America, from the Antilles to the vicinity of the 

 Plata river. The nations belonging here are so numerous, that we can 

 select only a few of them. The principal nation are the Guaranis proper 

 {Tupi, Caribs, Cara'ibs), \vho in large numbers inhabit the entire eastern 

 part of the southern half of the New World. Martius divides this great 

 nation (that is, the part of it found extended over Brazil and over the 

 borders of Bolivia, Paraguay, and Montevideo or Uruguay) into five groups 

 and thirty-one nations, to which nine others may still be added. 

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