In the plural number it changes to _chigekoà_. Is there food? _Meka kanák?_ _Neogà_ means a day, and likewise time. _Grauek_, the moon, is taken for a month. _Yñieřa_, the flower of the alfaroba, also denotes a year. Hence, when they wish to ask any one how old he is, they say, How many times has the alfaroba blossomed during your life-time? _Hegem leyera yñiegari?_ which is a very poetical expression. For the body they name the skin or bone, thus taking the part for the whole. _Yoalè_ means only a husband; it is however used to signify a man. In the same way the Guaranies use the word _Aba_, which denotes a husband, and the Guarany nation, as they have no word for man. _Aba che_ has three meanings, I am a _Guarany_, I am a _man_, or I am a _husband_; which of these is meant, must be gathered from the tenor of the conversation. Perhaps there are nowhere more virgins than in the country of the Abipones, yet they cannot express a virgin except by a paraphrase, as _haayè_ simply means a young girl. For never, they say _chik_ or _chit_, thus, I shall never go hence: _Chik rihiukàm_. They more frequently say, _Chitlgihe rihiukàm_. _Chitlgihe_ means, there appears no time in which I shall go hence. They express _eternal_ by interminable, thus: Life eternal, _Eleyřa chit kataikañi_, the life which is not finished. We used the Spanish word for God, whose name they are ignorant of: _Dios_, _eknam Kaógarik_, or _Naenatřanak hipigem, kachka aalò_. God, who is the maker of all things, or the creator of heaven and earth. _Kauè_ signifies to make; _Kaógarik_, a maker. They call eggs _Tetarik l'kauetè_, the hen's work. They cannot express _everywhere_ in one word, but explain it in this way: God is in heaven, in earth, and there is not a place in which he is not; _Menetahegem quem hipigém, menetañi quen aaloà, ka chigekòr amà, chig enaè_. I omit innumerable other words which they want, but which they make up for in various ways. Many things which we always express with one and the same word, they distinguish with various names, or entirely transform, by clothing the original word with new particles. After having exposed the poverty of this language by examples, I ought briefly to make you acquainted with its richness, in the same manner.