The earth and its inhabitants .. . vailing themselves of snags or other convenient supports lying athwartthe current. TiiK Antisians. West of the Rio ^lamore, and north of the Cochabamba and Carabaya Andes,the Indians of North Bolivia who roam the region of plains and foothills aredesignated in a general way as Antisians, a collective name which embraces severalgroups differing greatly from each other in many respects. The civilised peopleof the plateaux usually call them Chunchos, a word which, as used by them, hassimply the meaning of Savages. INHABITANTS OF BOLIVIA. 377 Occasionally this te
The earth and its inhabitants .. . vailing themselves of snags or other convenient supports lying athwartthe current. TiiK Antisians. West of the Rio ^lamore, and north of the Cochabamba and Carabaya Andes,the Indians of North Bolivia who roam the region of plains and foothills aredesignated in a general way as Antisians, a collective name which embraces severalgroups differing greatly from each other in many respects. The civilised peopleof the plateaux usually call them Chunchos, a word which, as used by them, hassimply the meaning of Savages. INHABITANTS OF BOLIVIA. 377 Occasionally this term Chuncbo is applied in a special way to those Moseteneswho have remained pagans, who dwell on the banks of the Beni, and who are thusdistinguished from the Christian Mosetenes and Lecos. The absolutely incorrectname Guarayos is applied in a still more hostile sense to the Indians who roam thedense forests between the Rios Madre de Dios aud Madidi. In this reo-ion Fig. 142.—Aboeigisai Populations of 1: 18,000, 2? Depths. n tosoFathoms. .W to 50OFathoms. .100 to 1,000Fathoms. 1 000 to 2,000Fathoms. 2 OOO Fathomsand upnards. 310 Miles. Guarayos has acquired the sense of enemy, and from it is even derived averb meaning to kill. The whites have little knowledge of these pretended Guarayos, who differ sogreatly from the true Guarayos of Guarani origin. They, in fact, give a wideberth to these wild forest tribes, who go nearlj naked, except on feast-days, whenthey strut about arrayed in flowing mantles. Daring boatmen, they use lire tohollow out canoes, 50 feet long, formed of a single trunk, and also make swords 378 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES HEGIONS. or cutlasses of the hard wood of the hactris ciliala; but ihey leave all agriculturalwork to the Momcn. These Guarayos, however, are a religious people, who worship Baba-Buada, adeity identified with the wind, who dwells in the southern regions whence blowthe trade winds. Before sowing time, as well as during the h
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