Gatschet.] ^02 [juiy is, 



Names of birds : 



kinikini Cymindes ilUgeri 

 krabete FuUca — ? 

 shusliubi Orpheus americanus 

 warawara Cathartes curasoica. 



Insects and other animals ; 

 dori R/ina ( — ?) 



guruguru Galandra granaria (a beetle) 

 hanaliana Formica ceplialota 

 kimakima Cassiopea frondosa (a rhizopod) 

 kumexen Termes fatalis 

 lembelembe Conops sanguisuga (a dipteron) 

 mamondenga Ichneumon niger 

 paluli Mytilus edulis 

 •waltaka lizard. 



Several of these names are formed by duplication of tlie (dissyllabic) 

 radix, a process occurring in many languages to indicate formation by 

 onomatopoesy, or diminutive nouns, or objects existing in large numbers. 



exorcist's or conjurer's formulas. 



3Ialedictory formula : ;t'erebete den kafa magolotchi. 



For frightening children : tue daye datie' gidio' dimi gurio yatabo. / 



Two formulas to remove cactus-spines from the human body : (1) una areya 



rafayete dudrea ebanero abono, caburo copudabo daburi. 



(2) yuni roba rapebo tcbaba na aripebo, diida banabo pebo, home 



daba burvo, damei bo bakuna, daodao fuda dada. 

 Formula to remove fish-hones or other obstructions from the throat : vidie 



pahidie, maranako tubara tchira deburro, liadara karara. 

 Formula for hunting the iguana : Sako deu komanari manadi watapuna 



tafa na douere sadii na ditieri. 



"When A. L. Pinart gathered these formulas, he found it impossible to 

 obtain any interpretation for the single words. When I remarked to him 

 that such formulas of sorcery were often made up of unmeaning sounds 

 and words, he scouted the idea, and said these sentences were literal quo- 

 tations from the extinct Aruban tongue. It will be noticed that several 

 words in them occur in the lists above : kafa, datie, watapuna (cf wata- 

 pana). In the formula preceding the last one, some rhythm resembling 

 assonance is perceptible. 



In making a study of the above lists, I have endeavored to classify the 

 lost Aruba language among some of the circumjacent linguistic families. 

 But the peculiar selection of the terms, which are very uncommon, the 

 paucity and probable disfiguration of them in the mouth of the uneducated 

 people have not permitted to And any other but passing analogies with the 



