APÉNDICE C 
TOWOTHLI OE LENGU A-EN I MAGA 
INTRODUCTION 
The following words of Towothli, collected for tlie most part by my 
colleague, Mr. W. Barbrooke Grubb, thougli few in number are ex- 
tremely useful as links among the Chaco languages. The stray words 
of Lengua and Enimaga are taken from the Manuscrito del Capitán 
de Fragata D. Juan Francisco Aguirre, 1793, edited by Enrique Peña, 
and publishod in tiro Boletín del Instituto Geográfico Argentino, 
tomo xx. In the pages of the MSS. the Enimaga are called “ Tujetge ” 
and “ Estabosle,” the latter expressly stated to be the Mascoy word 
for the people whose general ñame is either Enimaga or Enimaca. 
From the short description given, as well as from the words of the voca- 
bulary, tliere is no hesitation in identifying them with the Towothli 
or Tawathlai, a ñame well lmown among the Cliaco peoples from the 
Río Paraguay to the Río Pilcomayo, the nyimaJca of the Tobas, and the 
ñamaba of the Matacos. 
A glance at Aguirre’s words under Lengua and Enimaga reveáis at 
once that the two peoples were mixed up at that date, and in his notes 
he refera to the fast vanishing “ nación famosa ” of the Lenguas, whose 
few solitary remnants were dwelling with the Enimaga and the Mascoy 
or Machicuy. The term Mascoy is used to-day of a seetion of the 
people who spealc the language of Aguirre’s “ Mascoy,” the mass, of 
which this forms a part, still bears in popular language the ñame of 
“ Lengua,” the subject of Grubb ’s Unknown People in an Unknown 
Land, in which full reference is made to the Towothli, a small and 
friendly tribe to the south-west, wedged in between the so-called 
Lenguas and Suhin, with the Aii as their Southern neighbour. Tliese 
latter are a branch of the Tobas known to history under the various 
forms of the presen t Toba word, Pihilgá, viz. Pífliga , Pilága , Piti- 
lagá, Yapitalaga. Its significance, I believe, is simply “ Northern 
People,” because its application is not limited to the Aii ñor to the 
Tobas of Bolivia, but ineludes also the Chunupi and Choroti. 
Popular ñames like “ Lengua,” though misleading when dealing with 
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