1S92.] «5 [Brinton. 



Leca An.\logies. 



Sun, he'no ; compare hue' no (Opone, Carib stock). 



Moon, kurea ; comp. kede, sireffu (Carib dialects). 



"Water, dua; perhaps from Carib tuna. 



Arrow, uela ; not far from Carib boule'oua. 



Arm. bepel ; close to Carib yapoide, japaW. 



Toolb. bi/ciri ; nearly the same as the kxier and j/t'rt of Caribs. 



Heaven, kaut ; almost identical with the Bakairi kxau and Carijona 



cahoue, both Carib dialects. 

 Legs, boo'te ; comp. Carib iebeti, bed. 



I think it is safe to inter from the above comparisons that there 

 is an infusion of Carib elements in the tongue ; but the material is 

 too scanty to assign its true value. 



According to a count made by the missionaries in 183:! there 

 were about two thousand natives at the mission of Aten, all of 

 whom we may assume were Lecos. Dr. Edwin R. Heath, who 

 spent two years in the valley of the Beni about iSSo, does not men- 

 tion them, at least under this name, and gives no specimen of their 

 language. 



In personal appearance the Lecos are described (by Weddell) as 

 of pleasant expression, with straight foreheads and horizontal eyes, 

 the mouth of medium size. In temperament they were frank and 

 cheerful. What is unusual, they seemed totally devoid of apprecia- 

 tion or care for music, and had no dances or songs of any kind. 



The alphabet of the vocabulary is the Spanish ; ii is the French 

 u ; J as tscha in German. 



English-Leco Vocabulary. 



Arm, bepel. Flower, tutlia. 



Arrow, uda. Forest, kanda. 



Belly, baiiahobo. Hand. bueu. 



Bird, kaichit. Head, barua. 



Blood, bile. Heaven, kaut. 



Bod}-, bonotclico'10. House, uan. 



Bow, tchata'ta. Leaf, uoia. 



Child, yatchpaik. Legs, boo'te. 



Earth, lal. Man, yvbasa. 



Eyes, bisiri. ^lilk, buchuluro. 



Feet, besd. Moon, kurea. 



Fingers, biai. Mountain, uotha. 



Fire, vioa. 3Iouth, bokorua. 



