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BEINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGKAPHY. 



[Oct. 7^. 



reside in contiguity, as if driven together by outer pressure on all 

 sides. This would give probability to the opinion that they are 

 the oldest surviving inhabitants of the Chaco. 



The dialectic variations in the stock may be seen in the follow- 

 ing comparisons :^ 



Mataco Dialects. 



Mataco, 



Vejoz, 

 Nocten, 



Mataco, 



Vejoz, 

 Nocten, 



Mataco, 



Vejoz, 

 Nocten, 



Mataco, 



Vejoz, 

 Nocten, 



The tribe called by de Brettes the Aksseks must be members 

 of the Mataco stock. They dwelt on the Bolivian frontier, 

 extending in a northwesterly direction from the Rio Pilcomayo 

 to the confines of the Samucus.^ 



Lafone Quevedo is of the opinion that the Mataco is a jargon, 

 owing its lexicon to one stock and its grammar to another (Pelles- 

 chi, ii, p. 14). This is not the impression that it makes upon me. 

 I rather agree with Father Remedi (in Lafone Quevedo, v, p. 25) 



1 1 have selected the same words which form the brief comparative vocabu- 

 laries in my American Race. 



^Mallat de Bassilan, U Amerique Inconmie, pp. 11, 37. They spoke neither 

 Guana (Ennima), Guarani or Chamacoco. . 



