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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHARRUA , a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

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WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild and warlike, formerly ranging over

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URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

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PART

part of S .

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Brazil . They were dark and heavily built, fought on horses and used the

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BOLAS (plural of Span. bola, ball)

bolas or weighted

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lasso . They were always at

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war with the Spaniards, and Juan

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Diaz de

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SOLIS, ANTONIO DE (1610-16S6)

Solis was killed by them in 1516 . As a tribe they are now almost

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EXTINCT

extinct, but the

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MODERN

modern Gauchos of Uruguay have much Charrua

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BLOOD

blood in them .

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