An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)Dobrizhoffer, Martin
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An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)
Dobrizhoffer, Martin
Abipon Indians; Jesuits -- Missions; Paraguay -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Spaniards, are the Abipones, Natekebits, Tobas, Amokebits, Mocobios,
Yapitalakas, or Zapitalakas, and Oekakakalots, Guaycurus, or Lenguas.
The Mbayas dwelling on the eastern shore of the Paraguay call themselves
Eyiguayegis, those on the western Quetiadegodis. The pedestrian tribes
are the Lules, the Ysistines Foxistines, who speak the same language, to
wit the Tonocotè, and have been, for the most part, converted by us, and
settled in towns: the Homoampas, Vilelas, Chunipies, Yooks, Ocoles, and
Pazaines, who are in great part Christians: the Mataguayos, whom we have
so often attempted to civilize, but who always proved indocile: the
Payaguas, the Guanas, and the Chiquitos. By the annual excursions of men
of our order to the woods, savages speaking various languages, as the
Zamucos, Caypotades, Ygaronos, &c. were added to the colonies of the
Chiquitos.
The Chiriguanos, a nation very famous for number, fierceness and
obstinacy, can scarcely, I think, be referred to Chaco, as the majority
of them inhabit the territories of Tarija and Peru. Their language,
which is somewhat remarkable, is a dialect of the Guarany, very little
corrupted. Tradition reports, that they formerly migrated from the
southern shores of the Parana and the Paraguay, to these northern tracts
of Peru, through fear of the vengeance which threatened them from the
Portugueze, for having murdered their countryman Alexo Garzia. This
cause of their migration some reject, and contend that near a hundred
years before the murder of Alexo Garzia, they had been attacked, but not
vanquished, by the Inca Yupangui. This is, at any rate, most certain,
that the Chiriguanos, except a few who now profess Christianity, are, at
this day, hostile to the Spaniards, and formidable to the whole
neighbourhood far and wide.
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