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Show B r i amw ABORIGINAL LIFE. ulil ot ,, iNTERESTINC NATIVE AMERICAN c7 ACES IN SOUTH AMERICA, etl iinb ' . flucgestlone Hint lli Managers of tha itt Coming Columbian Imposition Should Con.lder. . it. ro n.. In a rccnnt article Id the Chicago n. Jfttci, somo Interesting facta are stated m in rcfcrcnco to tho inhabitants ot 'our l,. neighboring South Amorlcan republic. ho u ' j0 If there could havo been aomo Qeorgo ly Catlln Id Columbus' time, what a world ,1 .of troublo It would hare saved future "- til :2n& l'.-V to M ICrJSB; 1 MEXICAN CATtniEIU ' . generations who have only scattered t. K relics, dug from tho soil, from which to sfc I construct n picture ot tho past. V Tho tradition is that tho Carlbs, who ' were such a terror to tho milder tribes c ot the West Indies, had their origin in our own Rocky mountains. Perchance w those Florida warriors who played such (j havoc with the schemes ot Ponce do ,0 Icon and I)e Soto were of the same , blood. Tho tow descendants of the I. Tlorlda and the southern Indians of tho ,.( United States constitute the civillrcd j! nations of tho Indian territory. The once numerous Carlbs, who. In the flf- tcentb-century, were virtually confined a to the Lesser or Southern Antilles, nave 0 dwindled to n few hundred savages near 0 the Orinoco rlvor. By going to the up-i- per waters ot the Pomcroon some cntcr-( cntcr-( prising agent of tho exposition might capture just such n Carib ns slow the 1 Columbian Spaniard. I Mexican iiuTCimn. Tho Arawaks. who disputed tbemaln-land tbemaln-land with the Cirlln. inhabit n strip of Qulana back from tho sea coast. They nro now a tribe; they wore then a nation. Fragments ot the tribes, whom Cibral i and Vespucius saw. nre now In tho In terior ot nrar.ll, living in their fortified i Tillages along the upper Aumzou, or gathering rubber and drugs for tho .English ogents, who for years havo hud tin established trsdo with Ihem. They nre most expert boatmen. The warriors use gigantic bows and ariows. and their war trumpets aro enough to blow down their houses. Tho more degraded tribes placo large pieces of wood in their cars nnd under lips, and roam along the river banks, eating snakes, lizards, and monkeys; mon-keys; but it would be too much to ask for living Hneclmcris of these monsters. The broadchested Fuogtans. with tholr weak and emaciated lower limbs and their wonderful powers of mlmlcry,who lmvo been trying to got warm since Magellan's lime, as thoy tried before they obotild succeed tho Amazonian Indians, In-dians, and be covered with a guanaco kin large enough nnd warm enough for the Chicago public and the Chicago summer. MEXICAN I'KDDLIin. If tho order of historic discovery ho pursued the Mexicans ot the Cortrs con-quost con-quost shoulcXnext he crouped. Tho industrious in-dustrious farmers of Nicaragua aro purs Indians many ot thorn Aztecs. Tha (killed mechanics of Quatomaia, tho lu. tellhjent and Independent bulk o'f fis population, are descendants' of a great nation, which raised 200,000 warriors to oppose the conquest ot their l.ind by ouo of Cortes' lieutenants. Of tbo Ave Central American republics Nicaragua and Guatemala may particularly be called Indian nations, and their prosperity prosper-ity Is, therefore, an index ot native capabilities. vn tno upper Orinoco river. Id Columbia, Colum-bia, aro a tow bands of an Indian nation, which at the time of the Spanish conquest con-quest numbered 2.000,000 people, and held a largo domain north of tho empire of tho Incas. Tho anclont languago Is till spoken by them. As you enter Ecuador and tho ancient emplro of tho Iticas you strike tho hardy trlbo ot Qultus. which glvo tholr name to the capttul of tho republic. Tholr forefathers fore-fathers are said to have been the foremost fore-most painters and architects ot tho empire, em-pire, and even now they are tho bridge-builders bridge-builders of Ecuador; they composo, in fact, her farmers, mlncrs.manutacturcrs, and Industrial classes. The Qulchuss of Peru and Bolivia have aqulllao noses and fine mouths and tceib, aro low ot stature, but broad and branny. Their appearance stamps them as of the royal race and worthy ot associating as-sociating with the best of modern times. Tbo agriculturists Inhabiting the districts dis-tricts around Like Titicaca are descendants descend-ants ot that ancient people whose mas-alvo mas-alvo ruins havo been studied in tho Museum of Antiquities. Thoy were conquered con-quered by tho Incas. who absorbed many of their agricultural and astronomical iuets. The Araucanlans have their homes la Chili and Patagonia. It was a confederacy confeder-acy of tho Arnucanlan tribe of Chili which checked tho Spanish advnnco southward. The natives have broad and heavy failures, but bright and piercing eyes. They have a republican form of Hill. Jfc " eete. A FUTUrtE AltAUCAN'IAN HKnDSMAN. government, and aro Intensely national. As has been remarked "tbo constitution constitu-tion of Chill Is far less democratic than that of Arauranla," the native stato lying between the Bloblo and Valdlva rivers. Tho long lances, the slings, bows, pikes, clubs, and bolas (stone balls fastened to a thong) represent the weapons employed by tho brave Araucanlans Arau-canlans to successfully resist the Spanish armies for more than n century. They are splendid horsemen, their chief wealth being their cattle, and their domestic life is of a high order, Tho center of tho national and tribal life Is in this compact Chilian state; but members ot the race range the pampas ot South America oast of tho Andes, and aro found, also, as the bold Putagonlans of tbo south. Their language is spoken to Cape Horu.and east to Buenos Ay res. By all means let tbo Columbian exposition exposi-tion contain a complete picture of this most hardy, proud, virtuous, and brave race ot Indians. |