APÉNDICE A 
CITOKOTI O R YÓFUAIIA 
INTR01) UCTION 
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Situated on the River Pilcomayo between 21° 30' and 22° 30' paral - 
lels south latitude, the country of the Choroti extends but a few leagues 
inland from the left banlc of the river. Fortín Guachalla marks t lio 
Southern limit, and within a few leagues of that military settlement 
are a number of villages lying along a well watered gully, which 
may be said to contain half the entire population of the Choroti, 
whom I estimate at about 2500 inclusive of women and children. 
Northwards till San Francisco or Villa Montes is reached are scattered 
villages near the river, and a few minor oncs four to ten leagues 
inland, where a fair supply of water can be íound or wild fruits be 
obtained. 
Their neighbours to the north are the Toba and Chiriguano ; across 
the river are the Mataco-Guisnai ; to the south are their allies the 
Suhin-Clmnupi (called or rather miscalled by the local Bolivians 
Tapíete, the latter a Chiriguano-speaking people that lie to the north- 
west, famous for maldng the shell necklaccs which they barter with 
the Choroti and other tribes for clothes and various commodities) ; 
to the east lies a deep waterless forest which is uninhabited, and rarely 
passed through. Away beyond this desierto are the eastern Suhin, 
the Towothli-Enimaga, and from their boundaries to the River Para- 
guay stretch the Lengua-Mascoy. 
The Choroti cali themselves Yófuaha, which I venture to interpret 
“ the Pigeon People ” from ófuo (pigeon), and which 1 believe to be 
their tótem. This was impressed upon me wlien at a solemn naming of 
myself, after insisting that I would not be called Kilaii, or “ foreigner,” 
but demanded to have a true lndian tille which I deserved after long 
residence in the Chaco, they tlien styled me the “ Pigeon.” The 
ñame Palomo was known by the oíd chroniclers, which may rofcr lo 
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