200 THE AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS. 
of dress, customs, and habits — results probably due to Jesuit culture— 
there are marked distinctions Avbiclj. have resisted eflacetnent. Thus 
the Caynabas of Exaltacion, nbo evidently have suffered most from 
the corrupting influence of the 'white inau, are still renowned as the 
boldest and hardiest boatmeu ; while the Canichanas of S. Pedro, who 
from the first struck us by their sulleuly-stern behaviour and 
Mongolian type, are said to have given more troulile to the Ilcverend 
Fathers than all the rest, and to have occasionally indulged, up to a 
veiT recent date, in their anthropophagous appetites, to which they 
sacrificod moi'e than one messenger from adjoining Missions, as he 
■wended his weary way over the lonely eampos. 
, The Mobiiria's, at 8. Ana, near Exaltacion, arrest attention by 
their tall figures. Notably the squaws, as thej' stride poAverfully 
along in their white camisetas, might easily originate fables like those 
respecting the giants of Patagonia ; Avhile among the Mojos* at 
Trinidad, Loreto, 8. Ignacio, and 8. Javier, there are to be found, 
not only figures of faultless symmetry and beauty, but the truest, the 
faithfullest, and the kindest of hearts. 
An illustrative vocabulary of the various languages is given in 
the annexed table; and, regarding pronimciation, I ha^m to remark 
that the spelling is the German one. 
For the ontward appearance and the physiognomical and other 
points of interest of these Indians, I refer to the illustrations. A 
sketch, be it never so hasty, cannot fail to impart a better idea of 
them than any verbal description. The trvo last .sketches represent 
the chieftains of the Cayorvas and the Coroados of the Province of 
Parana ; and they may be regarded with greater interest from the fact 
that the Guaranis and their kindred, the Cayowds of the district 
called Guayra (now included in Parana), even so far back as tho 
end of the sixteenth century, were the ■willing pupils of the Je.suits, 
as the Mojos became afterwards. The warlike Coroados, of an opposite 
character, at the same period Avere the trusty allies of the AA'hite 
settlers -of the Province of 8. Paul, helping them in their slave- 
robbing expeditions and in the destruction of the Missions of the 
* In the Amazon Valley all Indians coming from the Bolivian Missions ai’e 
designated by the name of Mojos ; probably because the lii-st crews that were seen 
there in then- peculiar bast shirts belonged to this tribe. 
