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States, and many foroip;n oountrips. It expends about $4000 a year for materials whic^li are made ii)) by the members witliout compensation. About, 100 sacred vessels are given away each year, and these are all donated, generally as memorials of the dead or for some favour received. The a-ssociation pub- lishes its "Annals" three times a year: the January number contains the report for the previous year.

Manual of Tabernacle Soc, and Annals of Association of Per- petual Adoration and Work for Poor Churches (Notre Dame Con- vent, Philadelphia).

James P. Turner. Tabor. Sec Thabor.

Tacana Indians, the rolleotive designation for agnni|i (it trilii's constitiiling the TacaiKtn linguistic stock ill (lilTricnt dialcrls, nccuiiying the ui)p('r val- leys of the Bi'ni and Madrc de I)ios Rivers, on the eastern slope of the Andes, Department of Beni, north- western Bolivia. The groii]) includes: the Tacana proper, the Isianio, theCavina, and the AtenorLeco, all missionized by the Franciscan Fathers of the Col- lege of Oeopa, Peru, about the end of the eighteenth century; the still uncivilized Toromona and Araume and several others; and the more remote Sapibocona of the Moxos mission farther to the south. In 1832 the five Tacana missions contained .5304 Christian Indians, while the wild Toromona were estimated at 1000 more. In 18,52 the traveller Weddell spent some time at the mission of Guanay and has given us a good de.scription of the Indians as he found them. In 1883 Heath reports them as greatly reduced, the 1000 Cavina of 1832 having dwindled to 70 souls. Like their neighbours, the Mozetena and Yurucare, the Tacana are noted for their light complexion, fine features, and tall stature, averaging over five and a half feet. Of their language, which is extremely gut- tural and jerky in pronunciation, we have vocabularies by Heath and Weddell, besides a small devotional publication. In their primitive condition they sub- sisted, and still do, by agriculture, hunting, and fish- ing, went naked except for feather decorations on dance occasions, and lived in small communities sub- ject to petty chiefs. Some of their tribes were reputed cannibals. The civilized Tacana wear as their prin- cipal garment a sleeveless shirt or chemise, keeping the head and feet bare. They are expert at weaving and the making of straw hats, but are not industrious beyond their immediate needs.

Armentia. Diario del Viaje al Madre de Dios (La Paz, 1890); Brinton. Americjin Race (New York, 1891); Heath in Kansas Citii Review of Science, VI (Kansas City, 1883); Markham, Tribes in the Valley of the Amazon in Jour, Anlhrop. Institute, XXIV (London. 1895); d'Orbiony. V Homme Americain (2 vols,, Paris. 1839); Weddell, Voyage dans le Nord de la Bolivie (Paris and Ix>ndon. 18.5:J).

James Mooney.

Tacapee, titular see of Tripolitana in northern Africa. The official list of titular sees of the Roman Curia calls this see Tacapa?; the ancient milestones bear the name Tacapas, Tacapa, Tacapes; the Greek name was probably Tacape. It is mentioned in nu- merous ancient geographical documents, but nothing is known of its history. It was located in the interior of Syrtis Minor in a fertile country, was provided with several roads, and w.as the commercial centre of the region. At first attached to Byzantium, in the third century it became a Roman colony and formed part of Tripolitana. It is now Gabes, cliief town of a civil control and the seat of a military commandery which comprises all the southern part of Tunis. It has 1200 inhabitants of whom 4(X) are French and live in an oasis due to the waters of Wady Gabes, with the two neighbouring villages of Djara (.3000 inhabitants) ;ind Menzel (300 inhabitants). Three of its bishops are known: Dulcitius, legate of the bishops of Triixjlitana to the Council of Carthage (403) and present at the Conference of Carthage in 411; Servilius, exiled by Huneric in 484; Caius or Callus, legate of the bishops

of his province to the Council of Carthage in ,52.'5. The see still survived under Ju.stinian who fortified the town.

.Smith, Otrt. nf Creek and Roman Gcogr., a. v.; MOlleb, Note: to Ptolemy, ed. Didot. I, 626; Toulotte, Geographic tie VAf~ rique chritienne: Byzacine et Tripolitaine (Montreuil, 1894), 261; Diehl, L'Afrique byzantine (Paris, 1896), passim.

S. PfiTRIDfcs.

Tacbe, Alexandre-Antonin, first Archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba, missionary, prelate, states- man, and writer of Western Canada, b. at Fraserville, Province of Quebec, 23 July, 1823; d. at St. Boniface, 22 June, 1894. By his father, Charles Tach6, he be- longed to one of the p r i n c i J) a 1 French Canadian families, and through his moth- er, Louise Henri- ette de La Bro- querie, he was a descendant of Laverendrye (q. v.), the discov- erer of the country in which he was to pass forty-nine years of his life. His clxssical stud- ies were made at the College of St. Hyacinthe, whence he went (1 Sept., 1841) to the seinin.ary of Montreal to study for the priesthood.

Alexandre-Antonin Ta First Arohljishop of Kt. Bo;

Thence he pa,ssed to the no- vitiate of the recently-arrived Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and when Bishop Provencher ob- tained the co-operation of this Institute for hia distant missions of the Red River, Brother Tach6, though still a novice, wa-s chosen to accompany thither Father Pierre Aubert, O.M.I. After a two months' journey through Canadian territory, Tach6 arrived at St. Boniface on 25 .\ugust, 1845. On the first Sunday following he was ordained deacon by Bishop Pro- vencher, and, on 12 October of the same year, was pro- moted to the priesthood, pronouncing the final vows of an Oblate on the next day. For nine months he stud- ied the Saulteux language ; this knowledge, however, was not to be of assistance to him until years later, for in July, 1846, he was sent to Ile-;Vla-Crosse. There he spent four years, learning the language of the Chip- pewayans, his new flock, among whom he laboured, literally changing the morals, no less than the creetl, of the northern aborigines. On snow-shoes and by canoe he made long journeys for the benefit of the Crccs, Chippeways, Athabaskans, and Caribou- Eaters, until, at the age of twenty-seven he was chosen as the coadjutor and future succes.sor of Mgr. Provencher. In obedience to the founder of his con- gregation. Bishop de Mazenod, he crossed over to Marseilles, and was consecrated (23 November, 1851) titular Bishop of Arath. On 27 June, 18.52, he was back at St. Boniface, and on 10 September, 1852, he arrived at Ile-<\-la-Crosse. He then continued his mi.ssionary life, which was rendered locally all the more useful as the Indians had resented his departure and the presence of priests not familiar with their language.

.So absorbed was Tach(^ in his apostolic labours that on the death of Bishop Provencher (7 June, 1853) he did not deem it incumbent upon himself to immedi- ately return to ,St. Boniface. He went on with hia peregrinations .among Indians and halfhreeds until in the cour.se of 18.54 he proceeded south to officially take possession of his see. On 5 June, 1855, he returned