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Most Paraguayans are illiterate and speak the Indian tongue, Guarani. But the country counts eight daily newspapers, 13 radio stations, 17 movie theaters. In rural regions, entertainment includes dancing, chicken fighting, the drinking of caña (made from sugar cane), personal combat, general camaraderie. This program habitually starts at noon Saturday, ends at midnight Sunday...
...cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands of southern Brazil, it curls around the low hills in Paraguay's southeastern corner, where the Guarani Indians first named it "Mother of the Sea," then heads south through Argentina to the Plata. The Paraguay rises in the sluggish swamps of the Mato Grosso, flows between heavy stands of quebracho trees through the heart of Paraguay, joins the Paraná where it enters Argentina...
When the Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred...
...Peru, in about ten days on a South American expedition for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their causes. Mr. Noble will have charge of the zoological work...