as they were themselves.

When first Sebastian Cabot and Solis ascended the Parana,
they found that the Guaranis of Paraguay had extended
in no instance to the western shore of either of those rivers.
The western banks were inhabited then, as now, by the wandering Indians
of the still not entirely explored territory of the Gran Chaco.
Chaco* is a Quichua Indian word meaning `hunting' or `hunting-ground',
and it is said that after the conquest of Peru the Indian tribes
which had been recently subjugated by the Incas took refuge
in this huge domain of forest and of swamp.

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* The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in his `Commentarios Reales' (en Madrid 1723,
en la oficina Real y a/ costa de Nicholas Rodriguez Franco,
Impressor de libros, se hallaran en su casa en la calle
de el Poc,o y en Palacio), derives the word from
the Quichua `Chacu/' = a surrounding. If he is right, it would then be
equivalent to the Gaelic `tinchel'. Taylor, the Water-poet,
has left a curious description of one of these tinchels.
It was at a tinchel that the rising under the Earl of Mar in the '15
was concocted.
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Be that as it may, the Chaco Indians of to-day, comprising the remnants
of the Lulis, Tobas, Lenguas, Mocobios, and others, are almost as savage
as when first we hear of them in the pages of Alvar Nunez
and Hulderico Schmidel. These tribes the Jesuits on many occasions
attempted to civilize, but almost entirely without success, as the long record
of the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries in the Chaco proves,