1892.] 



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[Brinton. 



Even a slight examination proves the Bonari a well-marked Carib 

 dialect, and as such it is correctly assigned and located on Karl 

 von den Steinen's linguistic map inserted in his work, Durch 

 Central Brasilien. The only word, however, which he gives from 

 their dialect, keri, moon, is not quite correct, according to this 

 vocabulary. 



English-Bonari Vocabulary. 



Air, cahu. 

 Arrow, purena'. 

 Black, tapaiuna. 

 Bow, urapa'. 

 Brother, mimien. 

 Cold, tecominhoa'. 

 Dance, timiara. 

 Ear, panare'. 

 Earth, nono. 

 Eye, nuruba'. 

 Fire, %iatu. 

 Fish, mUu. 

 Girl, meacaba'. 

 God, tupan. 

 Grandfather, tamunbd. 

 Head, iriopo'. 

 Heat, atupeua'. 

 Heaven, maiea-paa. 

 House, abeno\ 

 Husband, iinho. 



Infant, pitianhea. 



Light, atdquice. 



Man, xiquere' . 



Moon, quece. 



Old, tapoucu'. 



Old woman, nafoucit'. 



Rain, cunoba. 



River, tuna' (see Water). 



Son, child, meco'. 



String, ubiidiana. 



Sun, usiu'. 



Thunder, darara'. 



Tootli, jore. 



Uncle, uemi. 



Water, tuna. 



White, tiada'. 



Wife, upuiten- 



Wind, iriane'. 



Woman, uauri. 



The influence of the neighboring Tupi tribes is seen in such 

 words as tupan, God; tamunhd, grandfather; urapa', arrow 

 {tirapa'ra, Tupi) ; tiada, white {ti, Tupi) ; tapaiuna, black {tapan- 

 kuna, Tupi), and a few others more faintly. These are loan-words 

 which do not affect the mass of the language. 



vir. 



THE HONGOTE LANGUAGE AND THE PATAGONIAN 



DIALECTS. 



Among the manuscripts in the British Museum there is one in 

 Spanish (Add. MSS., No. 17,631), which was obtained in 1848 

 from the Venezuelan explorer, Michelena y Rojas (author of the 

 Exploracion del America del Siir, published in 1867). It contains 



