That many of the Carib tribes are flat-headed, and that they are also cannibals, is well known. A nation of women, however, forming a section of their population, has yet to be discovered.
Necdum finitus Orestes.—Vast as is the area already disposed of, the whole of South America has not yet been exhausted. There are tracts which have still to be filled up.
I. The eastern slope of the Andes from about 17° south latitude to the Equator.—It is only where the American continent begins to contract in breadth (i.e. about 17° south latitude), that the western limits of any of the tribes already noticed, such as those of the Missions and the Chaco, come in contact with the eastern Peruvians of the Andes.
Beginning, then, with the parts north-east of Potosi, we have between them and the parts east of Lima, as the most southern tribes, between Cochabamba west, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, east—
THE YURACARES.
Conterminous with the Quichua Peruvians, the isolated Guarani (Chiriguanos and Sirionos), the Indians of the Mission of Chiquitos, and the Mocéténès. From 17' to 16' south latitude.
Name.—Quichua. Yurak=white+kari=men.
Divisions.—1. Solostos on the east. 2. Mansinos on the west. Other sections of them extinct, or incorporate, or else mentioned under different names—Oromos, Conis, Cuchis, Enétés.
Synonym.—For the Solostos, Mages—so called by the people of Santa-Cruz.
Religion.—1. Of the Mansinos, Paganism. 2. Of the Solostos, Christianity.