Brinton.] ^" [Feb. 5, 



Tacana, in spite of some assertions to the contrary by Spanish 

 writers. 



Other tribes which should probably be added to this list, as they 

 are located on old maps within Tacana territory and have Tacana 

 names, are : 



Carangues, on left bank of Rio Tarabeni. 



Chumanos, north of Lake Roguaguado. 



Poromonas, on the lower Rio Beni (or Poro). 



Samachiianes, on Rio Coroico. 



Uchupiamonas, on the Rio Uchupiamona. 



Yubamonas, on the Rio Yuba. 



The termination inonas to several of these names is the Spanish 

 plural form of the Tac. manu, river, the tribes being named from 

 the streams along which they lived. 



In addition to the above I have found that the tribe known as 

 " Guarizas " is to be included among the Tacanas. A series of 

 texts in their language, comprising the Pater, the Ave and the 

 Credo, was found among the papers of Cardinal Mezzofanti, and 

 has been published by Prof. Emilio Teza in his Saggi inediti di 

 Lingue Americane (Pisa, 1868). The learned editor states that all 

 his endeavors to identify this language, or to ascertain the location 

 or affinities of the tribe, had been fruitless. A comparison of the 

 Guariza Pater with that in the Tacana, both of which I give on r 

 later page, will prove the very close relationship of the two tribes. 



D'Orbigny asserts that "Tacana" is not the name of a tribe, 

 but the name of the language. It is called by Spanish writers of the 

 last century the " Maracani,"* which is apparently not the same as 

 the Macarani of the mission of Santiago among the Chiquitos. 



The earliest missionary explorer of the Rio Beni, Fray Francisco 

 de Rosario, wrote a report in 1677, in which he mentions a number 

 of tribes, now extinct, among them the Hucumanos and the 

 Torococyes, whose names indicate them to have belonged to the 

 Tacana stock. f 



Location and Number. 



The general location of the Tacana group may be described as 

 along the eastern slope of the Cordillera, where it descends to the 



* See D'Orbigny, L Homme Amtricain, Vol. i, p. 374 ; Descrip. de las Misiones del Alto 

 Peru (1771). 

 t His report was printed iu full In Meleudez, Tesoro Verdadera de las Indias, Tomo iii. 



