This enterprise was successfully carried on until February, 1855, when, whilst in the peaceful prosecution of her voyage up the Parana River, the steamer was fired upon by a Paraguayan fort.

Under these circumstances I am constrained to consider the attack upon her as unjustifiable and as calling for satisfaction from the Paraguayan Government.

His experience and discretion justify the hope that he may prove successful in convincing the Paraguayan Government that it is due both to honor and justice that they should voluntarily and promptly make atonement for the wrongs which they have committed against the United States and indemnify our injured citizens whom they have forcibly despoiled of their property.

This was in accordance with the instructions to our commissioner, who was told that an indispensable preliminary to the negotiation would, "of course, be an acknowledgment on the part of the Paraguayan Government of its liability to the company."

From circumstances, however, over which the Government of the United States had no control, but which are not supposed to indicate any indisposition on the part of the Paraguayan Government to consummate the final formalities necessary to give full force and validity to the treaty, the exchange of ratifications has not yet been effected.

With generous courtesy the Paraguayan Government had put at my disposal the gunboat-yacht of the President himself, a most comfortable river steamer, and so the opening days of our trip were pleasant in every way.

The Guarany-speaking Paraguayan is a Christian, and as much an inheritor of our common culture as most of the peasant populations of Europe.

The Indian of the Chaco, a pure savage, a bow-bearing savage, will never come east of the Paraguay, and the Paraguayan is only beginning to venture into the western interior, away from the banks of the riverunder the lead of pioneer settlers like Rickard, whom, by the way, the wild Indians thoroughly trust, and for whom they work eagerly and faithfully.

There was a German lieutenant with the Paraguayan officers; one of several German officers who are now engaged in helping the Paraguayans with their army.

When I had to speak I impressed into my service as interpreter a young Paraguayan who was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Paraguayan caymans are not ordinarily dangerous to man; but they do sometimes become man-eaters and should be destroyed whenever the opportunity offers.

Occasionally we passed a wood-yard, or factory, or cabin, now on the eastern, the Brazilian, now on the western, the Paraguayan, bank.

In the early forenoon we stopped at a little Paraguayan hamlet, nestling in the green growth under a group of low hills by the river- brink.

Now the Paraguayan flag floats over it, and it is garrisoned by a handful of Paraguayan soldiers.

Now the Paraguayan flag floats over it, and it is garrisoned by a handful of Paraguayan soldiers.

Here Father Zahm baptized two children, the youngest of a large family of fair-skinned, light-haired small people, whose father was a Paraguayan and the mother an "Oriental," or Uruguayan.

Reining in, we looked back over the vast Paraguayan marshes, shimmering in the long morning lights.

Kermit had with him two of his novels, and I had read one of his books dealing with a disastrous retreat during the Paraguayan war.

Phyllis Forbes Dennis (A); 30Apr62; R294216. FORD, ANNE W. E. A tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature.

A tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature.

A tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature, by Maxwell Isaac Raphael & Jeremiah D. M. Ford.

Phyllis Forbes Dennis (A); 30Apr62; R294216. FORD, ANNE W. E. A tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature.

A tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature, by Maxwell Isaac Raphael & Jeremiah D. M. Ford.

The Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco under similar circumstances hang the girl in her hammock from the roof of the house, but they leave her there only three days and nights, during which they give her nothing to eat but a little Paraguay tea or boiled maize.

Amongst the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco the marriage feast is now apparently extinct.