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[Briutoii. 



Piba, to think. 

 Pichica, five. 

 Pisa, arrow. 

 Pisatri, a bow. 

 Pue, to come. 

 Piisi, four. 

 Puti, to go. 

 Patu, girl. 

 Quara, mother. 

 Queda, beard. 

 Quema, my. 

 Quietsunu, when. 

 Quimicha, three. 

 Quisa, to say, to tell. 

 Saipiave, good. 

 Sani, musquito. 

 Satsu, to sing. 

 Se'e, a duck. 

 Sinacla, hot. 

 Sisi, fish. 

 Sucuta, six. 

 TaJj, to sleep. 

 ^Tato, father, 

 yw. to give. 

 Tidnia, yellow. 

 Tiri-tiri, to dance. 



Tona, sister (younger). 

 Trine, day. 

 Trinetia, evening. 

 Tsada, to wish. 

 I'seru-tseru, lightning. 

 Jst, to steal. 

 Tsia-tsia, to cry. 

 Tsuati, to ascend. 

 Tueheda, strong. 

 Tu-eda, he. 



Tumu, a stone or rock. 

 f/c7a, a dog. 

 Uiizecua, brother. 

 Vmarsi, tobacco. 

 Upica, here. 

 Uqueda, far. 

 Fere-vere, a fly. 

 Yavi, husband. 

 Ychu, that. 



Tchucuana, those, they. 

 Ydebati, to laugh. 

 Yhe, this. 

 Yucuada, many. 

 Zatna, sister. 

 Zau, brother. 



II. 



THE JIVARO LANGUAGE. 



The material which I have to present on this language is entirely 

 from unpublished sources, and is the more valuable as, so far as I 

 know, not even a vocabulary of this important idiom has ever been 

 printed. 



The Jivaros (Givaros, Xivaros, Hibaros, Xeberos, etc.) are a 

 numerous and powerful nation, mostly yet in a savage state, who 

 dwell about the head waters of the rivers Paute, Morona, Santiago 

 and other upper affluents of the Maranon, between 2° and 4° 30' 

 South latitude, where they occupy the eastern slope of the Cordil- 

 leras. I have described their general culture and history in my 

 work on The American Race, pp. 282-284. 



They are said to present the peculiarity of unusual lightness in 

 color, and features of a decidedly Aryan type.* These traits have 



* "Aujour d'hui le type caucasique y domine," says Father Joseph M. Magalli, in 

 I] Annee Dominicaine, Paris, 1888. 



