Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Our Cruiser Riquilme on the Way to ^ «* ..^ ToBA Family and Rancho. •/f. ON THE STORIED PARAGUAY of God for any length of time. This opinion I warmly de-fended in the University of Cordoba, where I finished thefour years course of theology begun at Gratz, in what was my astonishment when, on removing thenceto a colony of Abipones, I found tbat the whole languageof these savages does not contain a single word which ex-presses God or a divinity. To instruct them in r
Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Our Cruiser Riquilme on the Way to ^ «* ..^ ToBA Family and Rancho. •/f. ON THE STORIED PARAGUAY of God for any length of time. This opinion I warmly de-fended in the University of Cordoba, where I finished thefour years course of theology begun at Gratz, in what was my astonishment when, on removing thenceto a colony of Abipones, I found tbat the whole languageof these savages does not contain a single word which ex-presses God or a divinity. To instruct them in religionit was necessary to borrow the Spanish word for God, andinsert in the catechism Dios ecnam caogarik, God the cre-ator of things. ^ The difficulties of the various languages which the mis-sionaries had to learn and the total absence of words ex-pressing the fundamental truths of religion give one someidea of the obstacles they had to overcome before theycould do effective work among the rude children of thePampa and the Great Chaco. Substantially the same diffi-culties confront the missionaries among many of the wildIndian tribes of South
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