the feasts of St Mark, St Matthew, St
Bartholomew, and SS. Simon and Jude.

CHIQUITOS (Span, "very small"), a group of tribes in the province of
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and between the head waters of the
rivers Mamore and Itenez. When their country was first invaded they fled
into the forests, and the Spaniards, coming upon their huts, the
doorways of which are built excessively low, supposed them to be dwarfs:
hence the name. They are in fact well formed and powerful, of middle
height and of an olive complexion. They are an agricultural people, but
made a gallant resistance to the Spaniards for nearly two centuries. In
1691, however, they made the Jesuit missionaries welcome, and rapidly
became civilized. The Chiquito language was adopted as the means of
communication among the converts, who soon numbered 50,000, representing
nearly fifty tribes. Upon the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 the
Chiquitos became decadent, and now number short of 20,000. Their houses,
regularly ranged in streets, are built of adobes thatched with coarse
grass. They manufacture copper boilers for making sugar and understand
several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make straw hats. They are
fond of singing and dancing, and are a gentle-mannered and hospitable
folk. The group is now divided into forty tribes.

CHIROMANCY (from Gr. [Greek: cheir], hand, and [Greek: manteia],
divination), the art of telling the character or fortune of persons by
studying the lines of the palms of the hands (see PALMISTRY).

CHIRON, or CHEIRON, in Greek mythology, one of the Centaurs, the son of
Cronus and Philyra, a sea nymph. He dwelt at the foot of Mount Pelion,
and was famous for his wisdom and knowledge of the healing art. He
offers a remarkable contrast to the other Centaurs in manners and
character. Many of the most celebrated heroes of Greece were brought up
and instructed by him (Apollodorus iii. 10. 13). Accidentally pierced by
a poisoned arrow shot by Heracles, he renounced his immortality in
favour of Prometheus, and was placed by Zeus among the stars as the
constellation _Sagittarius_ (Apollodorus ii. 5; Ovid, _Fasti_, v. 414).
In a Pompeian wall-painting he is shown teaching Achilles to play the
lyre.

See articles in Pauly-Wissowa's _Realencyclopaedie_ and W.H. Roscher's
_Lexikon der Mythologie_; W. Mannhardt, _Wald- und Feldkulte_ (1904).

CHIROPODIST (an invented word from Gr. [Greek: cheir], hand,