Brinton.] 



[March 6, 



assigned the name "Changuina," from its principal member, the 

 Changuinas, who resided on the river of that name flowing into 

 Chiriqui lagoon. It is said that some few villages of the stock may 

 still be found about the headwaters of this stream. 



My chief source of information about this family is derived from 

 the small work of A. L. Pinart, published in Paris last year, en- 

 titled Vocabidario Castellano-Dorasque, Dialecios Chumulu, Gua- 

 laca y Changuina. M. Pinart knew of no members of the stock 

 north of the Chiriqui lagoon, though Blewfields is more than two 

 hundred miles to the north of it. 



The following is the list of the words sent me. The orthography 

 is German. 



Of these the subjoined present more or less distinct Changuina 

 analogies: 



The words for man and woman, nik-ikna and ku-tna, may have 

 been borrowed from the Musquito, tva-ikna and ma-iren. 



The numerals in the Changuina stock appear not to have been 



