They ingeniously invented names borrowed from their native tongue, for things introduced from Europe, or made by Europeans. They did not like either to appear poor in words, or to contaminate their language by adopting foreign ones, like the other Americans who borrow words from the Spaniards. Horses, which the Spaniards call _cavallos_, the Guaranies call _cavayù_, and oxen, which the Spaniards call _nobillos_, they call _nobì_. The Abipones, on the contrary, call a horse _ahëpegak_, an ox, _ỳúihàk_, and a bull, _ỳúihàk lepà_, an uncastrated ox, a name derived from their own language, though, before the coming of the Spaniards, they were unacquainted with these animals. They call a church _loakal lëëriki_, the house of images, or _natamenřeki_, where thanks are given to God. A gun is expressed by _netelřanře_, which means a bow from which arrows are cast. Perhaps it is derived from the word _neetè_, a storm, because a gun resembles the thundering of a storm. Gunpowder is called _netelřanřre leenřra_, the flour of the gun; a book, _lakatka_, which means a word, tongue, speech. They call a letter, or any sheet with letters written or printed on it, _elorka_, by which name they also designate the otters' skins painted by women with red lines of various forms, of which cloaks are made to keep out the cold. They call water-melons, _Kaáma lakà_, the food of the Spaniards. They express a soul, a shadow, echo, and an image, all by the same word, _loákal_, or _lkihì_. The Latins also used the word _imago_, for an echo. Valerius Flaccus, in the third book of the Argonautics, says: _Rursus Hylam, et fursus Hylam per longa reclamat Avia, responsant sylvæ, et vaga certat imago._ Echo is a representation of voice, as an image is that of the figure. Cotton, the material of which cloth is made, they call _aapařaik_, cloth; wheat, _etantà lpetà_, the grain of bread; and bullets, _netelr̃anře lpetà_, the grain of the gun, or _Káamà lanařha_, the arrows of the Spaniards. A lute or harp is called _liûigi_, which means the loins of an animal; all metals, _lekàt_, and silver money, _lekacháole_, little metals; hell, _aalò labachiñi_, the centre of the earth, or _Keevét lëëriki_, the devil's house; a shirt, _yelamřkie_; stockings or boots, _lichil lelamřkiè_; breeches, _ykiemařha_; shoes, _yachrhářlatè_; a hat, _ñoarà_; a fillet, mitre, or any covering of the head, _yetapehè_; glass-beads, _ekelřaye_. I omit the rest. Metaphors are familiar to these savages. When they have the head-ache they cry _Là ỳívíchigi yemařat_, now my head is angry. When fatigued with manual labour, _Là ỳívíchigi yauigřa_, now my blood is angry, they exclaim with a smile. When in anger, they say, _Là ànahegem yauel_, now my heart hath risen. When impatient at any inconvenience, they vociferate: _Là lanamouge yapìk_, now my patience is ended, now I will bear this no longer.