Briutou.] ^^ [Feb. 5, 



Tooth. — The prevailing radical or may be related to Araucanian 

 or, bone. 



Hand. — Two conceptions are conveyed by the words presented, 

 che'me, che'ne, Jan, fa?i, all forms of the same = upper extremity, 

 arm and hand ; while or, cori, tsic-c' r, ya-s' k'ciip all refer to the 

 fingers. 



T'ooi. — The general root /&^/ probably reappears in 'alj, and even 

 in shan-kence (= chen-kels, lower extremity), aitli-kulkul, etc. 



House. — The root is generally kd' a. 



Numerals. — These display considerable diversity. Several are 

 merely borrowed from the Araucanian, in which we have : i, quine ; 

 2, epu ; 3, cula ; 4, nieli ; 5, kechu. From kechu, for instance, 

 comes Hongote ciech, Tel. keitzun, tzen, etc. Hong, chalas prob- 

 ably =Tel. ka-ash ; Hong. sa^TtX. t(i, etc. 



The general conclusion to which these comparisons lead is that 

 the Patagonian dialects are probably more closely related than has 

 hitherto been assumed. 



VIII. 



THE DIALECTS AND AFFINITIES OF THE KECHUA 



LANGUAGE. 



At the time of the discovery, and probably long before that 

 date, the Kechua language was spoken along and near the Pacific 

 coast from 3° North to 35° South latitude, that is from the Rio 

 Ancasmayu in Ecuador to the Rio Maule in Chili. 



Of course, in this long extent of nearly twenty-five hundred 

 miles of mountains and deserts, there was considerable variety in 

 its dialects ; but, so far as I can learn, much less than might be 

 expected at first sight. The Abbe Camano, a learned Jesuit who 

 traveled extensively in Peru about the middle of the last century, 

 and whose Elementi della Lingua Quichua has never seen the light 

 in print, classified the tongue under five dialects as follows : 



1. The Chinchasuyo, spoken in the diocese of Lima. 



2. The Lamafio, spoken about Lamas, in the diocese of Truxillo. 



3. The Quiteno, current in and around the city of Quito. 



4. The Calchaqui or Tucumano or Catamareno, which prevailed 

 west of the Cordillera in the province of Tucuman. 



5. The Cuzcuaiio, in and around Cuzco. 



Of these the last mentioned is that which is considered the 



