128 Harshberger. — Maize 



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islands, and adopted the word mahiz or mayz. The Arawak 

 word for maize is marisi, and various forms of this word are 

 found among the other tribes. 



[Arawak, marisi, Guiana. 



I Cauixana, mazy, Rio Jupura. 



j Goajiro, maique. Goajiros Peninsula. 



i Passes, mary, Lower Jupura. 



Puri, maky, Rio Paraiba. 



Coroado, maheky, Rio Paraiba. 



Carib, marichi, marisi (female use). 



Cuba, Jamaica, Lucayo, maysi. 



The Caribs clearly borrowed their word for maize from the 

 Arawaks, for the Arawak radical is used by the females of 

 the Carib stock, the males using an entirely different noun. 

 The Arawak word was used largely through northern South 

 America and the West Indies, and is the one which the 

 Spaniards adopted as the word for the new and unfamiliar 

 grain which they saw and described. 



The linguistic evidence shows: (i) That maize was intro- 

 duced into the United States from two sources, from the 

 tribes of northern Mexico and the Caribs on the West India 

 islands ; (2) that the Pueblos and northern Mexican tribes 

 deiived maize from central Mexico ; (3) that tribal connec- 

 tions existed between the North and South American con- 

 tinents, and that an interchange of products was carried on 

 by way of the Isthmus of Panama ; (4) that the wild tribes 

 living along the Andean system, in the El-Gran-Chaco 

 and elsewhere used Peruvian loan-words for maize ; (5) that 

 South American words for maize were used throughout the 

 Greater and Lesser Antilles and Florida, and that the Arawak 

 word for Indian corn, adopted by Christopher Columbus, was 

 used by tribes of that stock in the impenetrable and luxuriant 

 Brazilian forests. 



F. Historical Proofs. 



The historical section has been divided for convenience of 

 treatment into four parts, as follows : Division A, History 

 Proper ; Division B, Aboriginal Cultivation ; Division C, 

 Indian Use ; Division D, Mythology. The material has been 



