[474] “En Aten se habla la Leca por ser este pueblo de Indios Lecos.” _Descripcion de las Misiones de Apolobamba_ (Lima, 1771). [475] Weddell, _Voyage dans la Bolivie_, p. 453 (quoted by Waitz). [476] Most of the Samucus were gathered at the mission of St. Ignatius. Father Chomé remarks, “Les Zamucos, Cuculados, Tapios et Ugaronos parlent à peu prés la même langue.” _Lettres Edifiantes_, Tome II., p. 191. See also D’Orbigny, _L’Homme Américain_, Tom. II., p. 142. [477] D’Orbigny, _L’Homme Américain_, Tome II., p. 247. [478] Professor E. Teza gives some texts in his _Saggi Inediti di Lingue Americane_, pp. 40, 41; and Mr. E. Heath has supplied a careful vocabulary of recent date (_Kansas City Review_, April, 1883). [479] Texts of the Pater, Ave and Credo are given by E. Teza, _Saggi Inediti di Lingue Americane_, p. 51. [480] D’Orbigny, _L’Homme Américain_, Tome II., p. 257. [481] _Descripcion de las Misiones del Alto Peru_, 12mo, Lima, 1771. The only copy of this work which I have seen, and that an imperfect one, is in the Collection Angrand, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Among the MSS. of this great library is a _Confessionario_ in Itonama, which should be published as perhaps the only text of the language extant. Some remarks on its phonetics may be found in D’Orbigny, _L’Homme Américain_, Tome II., p. 239. [482] According to Father Fernandez there were, in 1726, 30,000 converts under the care of the Moxos Mission, and fifteen different languages were spoken, “qui ne se ressemblent nullement.” _Lettres Edifiantes_, Tom. II., p. 161. [483] See von Martius, _Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde_, Bd. I., s. 412. Professor Teza gives the Pater, Ave and Credo in the Mura dialect of Bolivia (_Saggi inediti di Lingue Americane_, p. 43). [484] Pater, an Ave and a Credo. _Saggi inediti di Lingue Americane_, pp. 48, 49. The author of the _Descripcion_, however, distinguishes between the _Ocoronos_ and the _Rotoroños_, both at the Moxos Mission. [485] See _Mithridates_, Th. II., s. 577. [486] The Capesacos and Menepes were others. Nicolas del Techo, _Historia Provinciæ Paraquariæ_, Lib. XII., cap. 33. [487] The word _chaco_, properly _chacu_, in Kechua is applied to game driven into pens. Lozano says it was used metaphorically in reference to the numerous tribes driven from their homes into the forests (_Descrip. Chronograph. del Gran Chaco_, p. 1). [488] Del Techo, _ubi suprá_, Lib. I., cap. 41. [489] _Historia de Abiponibus_, Vienna, 1784. An English translation, London, 1822. [490] Pedro Lozano, _Descripcion del Gran Chaco_, pp. 62-65. [491] “C’est _à_ peine s’il en reste aujourd’hui trois ou quatre individus.” D’Orbigny MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale. This was written about 1834. [492] A. J. Carranza, _Expedicion al Chaco Austral_, p. 422 (Buenos Aires, 1884). This author gives a useful vocabulary of the Toba, together with a number of familiar phrases.