See also:

• CHIQUITOS (Span. " very small ")

CHIQUITOS (Span. " very small ")  , a See also:

• GROUP

group of tribes in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SANTA

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, See also:

• BOLIVIA

Bolivia, and between 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 See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers See also:

• MAMORE

Mamore and Itenez . When their See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country was first invaded they fled into the forests, and the Spaniards, coming upon their huts, the doorways of which are built excessively See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low, supposed them to be dwarfs: hence the name . They are in fact well formed and powerful, of See also:

• MIDDLE

middle height and of an See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

olive complexion . They are an agricultural See also:

• PEOPLE

people, but made a gallant resistance to the Spaniards for nearly two centuries . In 1691, however, they made the Jesuit missionaries welcome, and rapidly became civilized . The Chiquito See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language was adopted as the means of communication among the converts, who soon numbered 50,000, representing nearly fifty tribes . Upon the See also:

• EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion of the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits in 1767 the See also:

• CHIQUITOS (Span. " very small ")

Chiquitos became decadent, and now number See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short of 20,000 . Their houses, regularly ranged in streets, are built of adobes thatched with coarse grass . They manufacture See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper boilers for making See also:

• SUGAR

sugar and understand several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make See also:

• STRAW

straw hats . They are fond of singing and dancing, and are a See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle-mannered and hospitably folk . The group is now divided into See also:

• FORTY

forty tribes .