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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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588 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of the same family. They are called bythe Spanish names of LosChiquitos andLos Moxos. It appears that these twonames belong properly to leading tribesof the respective groups of nations whichthey designate. On the south, next to the Patagonians and Chacos, these races grade off until, along the border country, Grading down of . J races; character marked in a general way by of the Chiquitos. . ■, -■-. -, .-. TT the Parana and the Ver-mejo, the difference among them is not the Tapajos. Southward other watersof this country descend into the Parana.The region is of a character to suggestand support the hunting life, and to thisvocation the Chiquitos give themselves.They are of a character somewhat simi-lar to the North American Indian tribes.They have villages, and are organizedinto families and clans. In clothinethemselves they cover but a part of theperson, and are more concerned aboutpicturesque and striking effects than they
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HOUSES OK THE GRAND CHACO. great; but if we take specimen peoplesfrom the southern pampas, and comparethem with like examples from the regionnorth and east of Bolivia, we shall findthe differentiation to be distinct, em-phatic, unmistakable. The country occupied by the Chiquitosconsists of the foothills of the easternAndean ranges. In geographical eth-nography the Chiquito race lies east-ward of the Aymaras. The broken coun-try which they inhabit is a region ofgreat forests, traversed by many smallstreams converging into the Madeira and are about the comfortableness and con-venience of their apparel. The character of the races which wehere find in our progress eastward andnortheastward across the South Americancontinent is such as strongly to suggesttheir classification with the Likeness of theaborigines of our own coun-try they present in comparison with the An-dean races are sufficient to warrant thehypothesis of Winchell and other ethnog-raphers that the races in question arethe wi

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