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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ive under theoutward form of Christianity, although those Indians who, after the departure ofthe Jesuits, reverted to the wild state have not revived their former primitiveusages. Thus, while discarding the European clothes, they no longer paint theirbodies, or perforate certain parts of the face, as did their pagan forefathers. The Mojos. Dwelling in a land of hills, glens and brooks, the Chiquitos have no know-ledge of navigation. The Mojos, on the contrary, who have their camping-grounds along the banks of large rivers or on frequently-flooded plains, are allskilful boatmen. Nevertheless, they depend for their sustenance chiefly onagriculture. The periodical floods occur at regular seasons, leaving the crops fulltime to ripen between sowing and harvest tides. Physically the Mojos closely resemble the Chiquitos ; but they are morerobust, and rather taller, while the women have somewhat less massive figures.Without possessing the overflowing spirits of their neighbours, they are dis-
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MOJ08 INDIANS. INHABITANTS OF BOLIVIA. 373 tino-uished by a remarkably equable disposition, a frank and upright characterand o-reat industry. They give up less time to merrymaking than their southernkinsfolk, and are generally of more laborious habits. Hence their industries aregreatly developed, and although living far from the large towns and markets,the Mojos excel all the other Indians as weavers, builders and wood-carvers.They even probably surpass the Chinese themselves, as well as all other people,in the surprising skill with which they can work on given models ; but they lackthe inventive faculty, as is so often the case with good imitators. According to Viedma, an explorer quoted by DOrbigny and by most otherwriters on Bolivia, the Mojos were acquainted with a sort of writing system,which consisted of strokes drawn on tablets. Their language is at once moreguttural and far less rich than that of the Chiquitos. Some of their tribes notengaged in commercial pursuits were even u

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