Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco : a story of missionary work in South America / told by W. Barbrooke Grubb, and his fellow-workers in the Chaco Mission of the South American Missionary Society ; with a preface by the Right Rev. Waite Hockin Stirling ; edited by Gertrude Wilson.

  • Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Date:
1904
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Credit: Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco : a story of missionary work in South America / told by W. Barbrooke Grubb, and his fellow-workers in the Chaco Mission of the South American Missionary Society ; with a preface by the Right Rev. Waite Hockin Stirling ; edited by Gertrude Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. A New Station and New Helpers. In July, 1891, Grubb was able to make definite arrangements for a Mission settlement in the Chaco, Thlagnasinkin- ar,d chose an elevated spot called mith Mission Thlagnasinkinmith, near the right bank Station. 0f tjie yerc[ej about thirty miles distant from the river Paraguay, on which he set to work to build a house. The Indians gathered round him in considerable numbers, and he employed them in making a paddock for cattle, fencing the house and garden, and clearing the ground for planting. For the transport of provisions and stores from the river, bullock carts had to be used; and an assistant was engaged to superintend the Indian peons employed in this service. The journey from Concepcion to Thlagnasinkinmith is thus described by the pen of Archdeacon Shimield, Journey up who visited the station on a subsequent Ri-ver. occasion (1894):— “ The distance from Concepcion to Caraya Vuelta, from whence we strike into the Chaco, is nearly twenty-six miles, and this had to be done in a flat- bottomed canoe. I was accompanied by Mr. Grubb
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