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AN

ACCOUNT

OF

THE ABIPONES,

AN EQUESTRIAN PEOPLE

OF

PARAGUAY.

FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIN DOBRIZHOFFER,

EIGHTEEN YEARS A MISSIONARY IN THAT COUNTRY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1822.

IILondon: Printed by C. Roworth,

Bell-yard, Temple-bar.

III

CONTENTS
OF
VOL. II.

PART II.

	Page

Chap. I. Of the Territory, Origin, and various Names of the Abipones	1

II. Of the natural Colour of the Americans	8

III. Of the Persons of the Abipones, and the Conformation of their Bodies	12

IV. Of the ancient and universal Methods of disfiguring the Person	19

V. Of the Perforation of the Lips and Ears of the Savages	24

VI. Of the Strength and Longevity of the Abipones	31

VII. Why the Abipones are so vigorous and long-lived	41

VIII. Of the Religion of the Abipones	57

IX. Of the Conjurors, or rather of the Jugglers and Cheats of the Abipones	67

X. Conjectures why the Abipones take the Evil Spirit for their Grandfather, and the Pleiades for the Representation of him	88

XI. Of the Division of the Abiponian Nation, of their Paucity, and of the chief causes thereof	95

IVXII. Of the Magistrates, Captains, Caciques, &c. of the Abipones, and of their Forms of Government	100

XIII. Of the Food, Journeys, and other particulars of the Economy of the Abipones	... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!