Briuton.] "'^ [Feb. 5, 



P. Quantos dias esteune N. S. P. Paquyby samaco oemequer 

 Jesus Christo debayxo da terra Jesus Christo lideo rimaticani gar- 

 no teo sepulcro de pedra? eda ete iiya a pudeo kya anaquya. 



R. Tres dias. R. Pyaquibaqui samfico. 



P. Era depois como passou? P. Guayney padeura? 



R. Resuscitou. R. Cayd§u-o ocary. 



P. Depois de resuscitar como se P. Cayd§uo ocary guayney pad- 



houve? 8ury? 



R. Subio ao ceo depois de 40 dias. R. Lycuruca iquiuaudadire 40 



samaco buiutiquey. 



P. De que sorle se ha, ou esta P. Paquypa sahe cachadir lid- 



agourla ? 8ury ? 



R. Esta asentado a mao direyta R. Tupan yracar sabj'di libauray 



de Deos Padre tao honrado e esti- quidea-o : subinha : aquidi caura 



mado como elle. ymiJeta pyrama. 



VI. 

 THE BONARI DIALECT OF THE CARIB STOCK. 



The last of the Bonaris died about 1870. At one time they were 

 a tribe of considerable strength, having their homes in the thick 

 forests along the river Uatuma, which empties into the Amazon 

 from the north, not far below the mouth of the Rio Negro. They 

 were, therefore, neighbors to the Manaos, whose location I have 

 already described. 



They were a docile people, and readily collected around the 

 mission Father Nuno Alvarez de Couto established at Sant' Anna 

 do Atuma. There, however, they fell victiins to various diseases 

 brought by the whites, and when Canon Francisco Bernardino de 

 Louza visited them, of all the tribe only one old woman survived 

 who was able to give him the words of its speech. These he pub- 

 lished in his book. Para e Amazonas (three parts, 8vo, Rio 

 Janeiro, 1874-5), which is scarce outside of Brazil, and from 

 which Dr. A. Ernst, of Caracas, obligingly copied for me the 

 vocabulary which I subjoin. 



The name of the tribe is taken from the Tupi language or Lingoa 

 Geral of Brazil, and in its proper form Boa-n-iiara means "snake- 

 men " or "serpent-people." Other boanari or snake-men are 

 mentioned, one band on the river Uaupes (Von Martins) and 

 another on the river Iq:anna (Natterer). It was a term probably 

 derived from the totemic sign, or perhaps from some accidental or 

 fancied peculiarity, and has no ethnic significance. 



