Paraguay: Same Lsm soil i-rotsctlon of flirts. 
In 19*29 i viao informed in .isuneiaa,Paraguay that the only Im 
permit 
perhaps 
eastern Paeragony, hat that wan wholly ignored in the vast Qh&oa west 
of the Paraguay River Mri ay iamtlptUtti ww wi«* a law fea? 
the protection of birds had boon formulated tJ»<rogli tta* agency of the 
well-informed naturalist A* «. do Sertoai and it was proposed to intro- 
duos this before the Paraguayan Congress bur ing the ooaing year* 
Save for a narrow fringe of settlement bordering the west or n shore 
of the Bio Paraguay the flhfcao has boon recognised as the territory of 
various tribes of Indians «ho have lived almost entirely from products 
of the chase, 3ach tribe had its territory, recognised by its neighbors, 
where it wm privileged to lamt ami fish at will, rhere its members 
gathered daring the dry win tor ooaaon at large logons of i>ari»«ent 
enter, and where, efcws* rains nnd# water available through the ooontry 
the Indiana travelled about ia families or bead* stopping te»|>oraniy 
etwrever fieh or aumo offered a supply of food. Hooting of puss entasis 
was carried on only to supply bodily abode aati weapons available were 
primitive* ’bows of great Strength, a$sd Imm arrows ware used by m ny, 
though a few troaeurM ei*«l#*barr»lsd shotguns or oooesioaally an old 
Realnstoa, Shared or Ballard single shot rifle, relic® of frontier 
day® fro® the Uhl ted State®, Ttm younger Indians especially were expert 
with threw- sticks - sections of straight heavy tree limbs from 20 to 35 
inches lo**® that were hurled with speed und occuraay for distuUJoe of 
