Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: A Story of Missionary Work in South AmericaC. Murray & Company, South American Missionary Society, 1904 - 176 pages |
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Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: A Story of Missionary Work in ... Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 31 - ... fellows are doing. For nine months of the year the interior of the Chaco is one vast swamp, as far as it is known at present. During a two hundred mile ride, including the return journey, over a track chosen by the Indians as being the highest and driest, I can safely say that one hundred and eighty miles lay through water, and this in the middle of November, with the sun almost vertical.
Page 33 - Why, my lord, man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth, sustained by the tradition of sacred ages and by the conviction of countless generations to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Page 54 - I share what today may afford, And let them spread the table to-morrow. And when I at last must throw off this frail...
Page 150 - Though the warfare be weary, the trial be sore, In the might of our GOD we will stand ; . Oh, what joy to be crown'd and be pure evermore, In the peace of our own Fatherland.
Page 165 - Tobas, who, though they generally occupy the lower basin of the Rio Vermejo in the Argentine portion of the Chaco, occasionally make raids into the departments of Tarija and Chuquisaca, plundering and destroying the villages, and carrying off women and cattle. The Quichua and Aymara have no relations or sympathies with the Indians of the plains, who in their turn hold the civilised Indians in great contempt.
Page 54 - By the sound of a murmuring rill: And while peace and plenty I find at my board, With a heart free from sickness and sorrow, With my friends may I share what to-day may afford, And let them spread the table to-morrow.
Page 117 - I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale- hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder.
Page 24 - We covered up the stores in the cart as well as we could, and by that time the storm had burst in all its fury. The thunder and lightning were terrific, and the rain came down in sheets. We were quickly drenched to the skin, and the camp was soon turned into a lake. It was impossible for the bullocks to go on in such a storm ; several large swamps lay between us and the toldo (Indian village), and the animals were already tired.
Page 134 - A green, new earth appears. Millions, whose life in ice lay fast, Have thoughts, and smiles, and tears. "What though there still need effort, strife? Though much be still unwon? Yet warm it mounts, the hour of life! Death's frozen hour is done.