[152] Tucumán. It was then a common practice to substitute the â for the terminal an. The name of the Chilean commander Villagran is often spelt without the n—Villagrâ.
[153] Avestruces in the MS.—but really the Rhea.
[154] Bixa orellana—anatto.
[155] The MS. is defective here.
[156] Orejones was the name given by Spaniards to some wild tribes of the Gran Chaco, because they perforated and stretched the ear lobes.
[157] Macagax in the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero.
[158] Algarrobo (Prosopis alba, or perhaps ruscifolia, Gr.).
[159] The river Salado, which watered the province of Socotonio, first evangelized by St. Francis Solano late in the sixteenth century. They were by this time on the south-western fringe of the Gran Chaco.
[160] East? Its general direction thereabouts is S.S.E.
[161] The village Soconcho is shown on the Abbé Jolís' map, in his Historia del Chaco (1789), on the east bank of the Rio Dulce, or Saladillo, in lat. 28° 40' S. Its true latitude is 28° 55'.