ABIPONES  , a tribe of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Guaycuran stock recently inhabiting the territory lying between See also:

• SANTA

Santa Fe and St lago . They originally occupied the See also:

• CHACO

Chaco See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• PARAGUAY

Paraguay, but were driven thence by the hostility of the Spaniards . According to See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin See also:

• DOBRIZHOFFER, MARTIN (1717-1791)

Dobrizhoffer, a Jesuit missionary, who, towards the end of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, lived among them for a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of seven years, they'then numbered not more than 5000 . They were a well-formed, handsome See also:

• PEOPLE

people, with See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black eyes and aquiline noses, thick black See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair, but no beards . The hair from the forehead to the See also:

• CROWN

crown of the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head was pulled out, this constituting a tribal See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark . The faces, breasts and arms of the See also:

• WOMEN

women were covered with black figures of various designs made with thorns, the See also:

• TATTOOING (Tahitian, tatu, from ta, mark)

tattooing paint being a mixture of ashes and See also:

• BLOOD

blood . The lips and ears of both sexes were pierced . The men were brave fighters, their See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief weapons being the See also:

• BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow and See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear . No See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child was without bow and arrows; the bow-strings were made of foxes' entrails . In See also:

• BATTLE

battle the Abipones wore an See also:

• ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour of See also:

• TAPIR

tapir's hide over which a See also:

• JAGUAR
• JAGUAR (Fells onca)

jaguar's skin was sewn . They were excellent swimmers and See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good horsemen . For five months in the See also:

• YEAR

year when the floods were out they lived on islands or even in shelters built in the trees .

They seldom married before the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

• THIRTY

thirty, and were singularly chaste . " With the Abipones," says See also:

• DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
• DARWIN, ERASMUS (1731-1802)

Darwin, " when a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man chooses a wife, he bargains with the parents about the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price . But it frequently happens that the girl rescinds what has been agreed upon between the parents and bridegroom, obstinately rejecting the very mention of See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . She often runs away and hides herself, and thus eludes the bridegroom." See also:

• INFANTICIDE

Infanticide was systematic, never more than two See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children being reared in one See also:

• FAMILY

family, a See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom doubtless originating in the difficulty of subsistence . The See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young were suckled for two years . The Abipones are now believed to be See also:

• EXTINCT

extinct as a tribe . Martin Dobrizhoffer's Latin Historia de A biponibus (See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1784) was translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English by Sara See also:

• COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)
• COLERIDGE, JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, 1ST BARON
• COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)
• COLERIDGE, SARA (1802–1852)
• COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN TAYLOR (1790-1876)

Coleridge, at the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey, in 1822, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of the Abipones (3 vols.) .